{"id":87155,"date":"2023-01-24T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=319f48dd26eda470f7c02d0ef88bb027"},"modified":"2023-01-24T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T04:00:16","slug":"press-statement-international-day-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/press-statement-international-day-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Statement: International Day of Education\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Delivering On Our Promise of Universal Education<\/b><\/p>\n
Our investment in education – especially for children caught in crisis and conflict – is our investment in a better future.<\/b><\/p>\n
GENEVA, Jan. 24, 2023 \/PRNewswire\/ — The following is a press statement provided by Education Cannot Wait:<\/p>\n
As we mark International Day of Education<\/a>, world leaders must make good on their promise of providing quality education for all by 2030.<\/p>\n Education is our investment in peace where there is war, our investment in equality where there is injustice, our investment in prosperity where there is poverty.<\/p>\n Make no mistake about it, there is a global education crisis that threatens to unravel decades of development gains, spur new conflicts, and upend economic and social progress across the globe.<\/p>\n As UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres highlighted at last year’s Transforming Education Summit<\/a>: “If we are to transform our world by 2030 as envisaged by the Sustainable Development Goals, then the international community must give this (education) crisis the attention it deserves.”<\/p>\n When Education Cannot Wait (ECW<\/a>), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, was founded in 2016, we estimated that 75 million crisis-impacted children required education support. Today, that number has tripled to 222 million.<\/p>\n Of the 222 million children<\/a> whose right to an education has been ripped from their hands by the multiplying impacts of conflict, climate change and other protracted crises, an estimated 78 million are out of school all together \u2013 more than the total populations of France, Italy or the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n As we have seen from the war in Ukraine<\/a>, the challenges of the Venezuelan migration to Colombia<\/a> and South America, the unforgivable denial of education for girls in Afghanistan<\/a>, and a devastating climate change-driven drought in the Horn of Africa that has created a severe hunger crisis for 22 million people<\/a>, we are living in an interconnected world.<\/p>\n The problems of Africa, the Middle East, South America, and beyond are the problems of the world that we share together.\u00a0And amid conflict, migration and climate change, governments like Colombia are struggling to secure the most basic living and education conditions for children in hard-to-reach borders.<\/p>\n There is hope. By embracing a new way of working and delivering with humanitarian speed and development depth, ECW and its strategic partners have reached 7 million children in just five years, with plans to reach 20 million<\/a> more over the next four years.<\/p>\n