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Education Cannot Wait announces US$1 million grant to UNHCR in support of forcibly displaced and host-community children in Niger
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ECW’s First Emergency Response grant will reach over 6,000 girls and boys in the ****Tillabéri and Tahoua regions of Niger with expanded COVID-19 prevention measures, new classrooms and integrated educational support
9 March 2021, New York – The education system in Niger faces major challenges: COVID-19, climate change, insecurity, armed attacks on schools and other factors are pushing refugees and internally displaced girls and boys out of school and into the shadows and margins of society.
To address these immediate, critical challenges – and to support Niger in achieving its goals for equitable and inclusive quality education as outlined in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals – Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today an additional US$1 million grant to the UN Refugee Agency in Niger.
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Around 77,000 Nigerians have sought refuge in Niger's Maradi region, some 7,660 since the start of the year as banditry and armed attacks spread.
By Selim Meddeb Hamrouni in Maradi, Niger | 02 March 2021
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Nigerian refugee Aisha and her family are among thousands who fled to Maradi, Niger, to escape violence. © UNHCR/Selim Meddeb Hamrouni
Only a few days into 2021, gunmen attacked Rambadawa, in northern Nigeria, to loot the village and steal cattle.
“I was on my way home when I came face to face with the bandits,” says Abdoulaye. “They said: ‘If you move, you're dead!’ I barely moved a foot and they shot me in the leg.”
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