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Major new philanthropic commitments back education amid global conflict and pressure on aid systems
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From ambition to action: conference builds momentum for early years summit
Global Youth Ambassadors speak up for children at UN week events
Business champions to help shape historic early years summit
Five things you need to know this week about global education and coronavirus
Emergency funding to keep children learning during the crisis and fears for refugee children on the Greek islands are featured in our news roundup.
From Ebola to coronavirus: education must not be forgotten in a health crisis
The challenge faced during the 2014 epidemic in West Africa of ensuring that children don’t fall between the cracks now confronts the whole world.
Five things you need to know this week about the coronavirus effect on global education
The pandemic has impacted 90% of the world's students through school shutdowns - children are also missing out on meals and at risk of violence and exploitation.
‘We are afraid of the unknown’ … Global Youth Ambassadors on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic
Young people around the world are being affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The mass shutdown of schools in more than 130 countries, orders to stay at home and the fear of contracting the virus are among the ways in which their lives have been impacted. We asked some of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s Global Youth Ambassadors - our network of young activists - to share what changes they are seeing because of coronavirus.
Hundreds of millions of students now learning from home after coronavirus crisis shuts their schools
Lessons delivered online and by television are quickly becoming the norm for children in countries around the world.
Coronavirus school closures mean over ONE BILLION children and youth are now shut out of classrooms
The pandemic has forced over 120 countries to shut down their education systems - on top of 258 million young people already not going to school in the long term.
“Coronavirus is amplifying the struggles that children are already facing to receive a quality education”
sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ President Justin van Fleet looks at the crucial role of education in the midst of a global health crisis.
Expert Voices
How our Global Youth Ambassadors have been inspired to Unlock Big Change
Our youth activists tell about their uplifting experience at sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s annual International Women's Day event.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
Our roundup leads with the news that one in five students around the world have had their school and college classes shut down because of coronavirus.
Dutch Postcode Lottery awards sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ 1.35m euros for work on education in emergencies
It will help us to fund education centres for refugees in the Greek islands and our work in Lebanon supporting children who attend double-shift schools.