Education Cannot Wait announces US$1 million grant to UNHCR in support of forcibly displaced and host-community children in Niger - Niger : vimarsana.com
Education Cannot Wait announces US$1 million grant to UNHCR in support of forcibly displaced and host-community children in Niger Format 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.