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NEW YORK, May 5 2021 - Approximately 100 million children are out of school in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and protracted crises. To provide these girls and boys with the mental health and psychosocial support they need to deal with the trauma and stress of these multiplying crises, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today US$250,000 in new funding to support the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Better Learning Programme in the Middle E...

Education Cannot Wait Enhances Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Crisis-Affected Children and Youth in the Middle East and North Africa Format New $250,000 ECW Acceleration Facility grant will enhance Norwegian Refugee Council’s Better Learning Programme 4 May 2021, New York – Approximately 100 million children are out of school in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and protracted crises. To provide these girls and boys with the m...

ECW announces US$1 million grant to ensure access to education for newly arrived refugees in Cameroon Format UNHCR will implement new grant in partnership with Government of Cameroon and other key stakeholders to respond to spike in children and youth arriving from Central African Republic 5 May 2021, New York – Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today a US$1 million grant to ensure refugee children and youth arriving from the Central African Republic receive access to quality learning in ...

Education Of Refugee Children How It Helped Put Their Trauma Behind Ed Holt The New Nation Inter Press Service: Eighteen-year-old Chuol Nyakoach lives in the Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp in Gambella, Ethiopia. Chuol is grateful that despite the trauma she has already experienced in her young life, she is able to continue her education in the refugee camp. Learning has given her a reason to wake up every day. The Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp is the largest in the area, comprising some 82,0...

Education Cannot Wait announces US$1 million grant in Chad in response to influx of refugees fleeing violence in the Central African Republic Format Implemented in partnership with the Government of Chad and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the ECW first emergency response will enhance protection and learning opportunities for 7,800 refugee and host community children and youth 3 May 2021, New York -- Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today a new US$1 million grant that will provide some 7,80...

Education Cannot Wait’s funding has helped provide education to 140,000 pre-primary, primary and secondary refugee school children — 38 percent of whom are girls — in the Gambella and Benishangul Gumuz regions. South Sudanese girls in grade two learning at Tierkidi School No. 3, Refugee Camp, Itang Woreda, Gambella Region. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2018/Mersha May 4 2021 (IPS) - Eighteen-year-old Chuol Nyakoach lives in the Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp in Gambella, Ethiopia. Chuol is grateful t...

Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait, visited a refugee site in the village of Modale, located 30 kms from Yakoma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Courtesy: Education Cannot Wait GOMA, DR Congo, Apr 27 2021 (IPS) - Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), has sounded the alarm on the need for Central African Republic refugee children and youth to access quality education during her visit to a refugee site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from ...

By Judith Raupp Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), has sounded the alarm on the need for Central African Republic refugee children and youth to access quality education during her visit to a refugee site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from Apr. 20-23.

UNICEF Mozambique Humanitarian Situation Report No. 2: 1 - 30 March 2021 Format Highlights Large scale attack occurred on Palma town in northern Mozambique displaced over tens of thousands of people with many fleeing into the bush and still unaccounted for. Nearly 250,000 children under 15 years have been vaccinated against measles in Cabo Delgado with UNICEF support in 2021. Screening for acute malnutrition has been completed for over 260,000 children under five with support from UNICEF. 2,706...

United Republic of Tanzania: Inter-Agency Operational Update #20 (March 2021) Format 223,685 Total camp-based population 144,791 Burundian population of concern 78,737 Congolese population of concern 157 Other Nationalities population of concern 116,652 Burundian refugees repatriated voluntarily since 2017 PROTECTION Results and Impact ▪ UNHCR continues to manage the logistics of the Voluntary Repatriation Convoys. During the reporting period. Some 3,199 individuals voluntarily repatriated to...