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Getting Children in Lebanon Back to School Amongst Multiple Crises Format By Maria Aoun BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec 15 2020 (IPS) - Education and health care were high on the agenda when the United Nations vowed to work toward a better future by setting 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be met by 2030. The global COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with harsh socio-economic challenges over the past few years, have led to several countries being off track to meet the SDGs. Lebanon is one such country: Lebanon hosts the largest proportion of refugees per capita of the local population in the world, an...

During Yasmine Sherif’s visit to UNRWA schools in Ein El Hilweh, Lebanon, she told children, “I believe in you, and I believe in your strength.” ECW continues to support Palestine refugee children in Lebanon to overcome the impact of COVID-19 on their education. Credit: ECW/Fouad Choufany BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec 15 2020 (IPS) - Education and health care were high on the agenda when the United Nations vowed to work toward a better future by setting 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be met by 2030. The global COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with harsh socio-economic challenges over the...

Tue 15 Dec 2020 at 09:33 Education & Culture NNA - Concluding her latest mission to Lebanon, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises - highlighted the severe impact of multiple crises on the lives and education of the country’s children and youth, and urgently appealed for additional funding to support them: “We must all inv...

Education Cannot Wait’s high-level mission to Lebanon calls for urgent public and private sector donor support for education Format Mission provides the opportunity to initiate with partners the process for the planned ECW-funded multi-year resilience education programme in Lebanon 15 December 2020, Beirut --Concluding her latest mission to Lebanon, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) -- the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises -- highlighted the severe impact of multiple crises on the lives and education of the country's children and youth, a...