SF to invest $15bn over education loss due to Covid
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San Francisco, July 4 : San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that the city budget will include an investment of $15 million in one-time funding to address education loss and recovery in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Building on the city s investment of over $100 million for Emergency Child and Youth Care Centers, the Community Hub Initiative, and the Summer Together Initiative, the city will use the new investment to help mitigate the education loss and expand academic support, which includes high dosage tutoring, social-emotional learning and literacy programs, the announcement said.
Elize Sauer works at the Abraham Kriel Children s Home in Modimolle and they published a report titled: "The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Children at Child and Youth Care Centres."
Sudanese refugee children in the Treguine camp. (Amaury Hauchard, AFP)
Despite previous lessons of children being displaced and ignored in times of crisis, it is still happening now as the world deals with Covid-19, writes
Marga Diederichs.
In 2020, a devastating pandemic hit the world.
As highlighted by the media and on social media, the overwhelming impact of Covid-19 was, in most instances, effectively communicated to captive and empathetic audiences worldwide.
But, as in times of war, there is a marginalised group whose suffering went unnoticed.
The plight of displaced, unaccompanied and orphaned child refugees disappeared in the deluge of statistics. These are children who fled their homes and countries from conflicts and persecutions. They were deprived of their material possessions and lost their families and loved ones. Their narratives and history may well also disappear in the records of a selective political memory – as did the narratives of