Education in emergencies

Three girls in backpacks stand outside a tent school in a makeshift camp in the Syrian Arab Republic.

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Education in emergencies

Education is a lifeline for children in crises.

13/08/2019

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A backpack full of potential

UNICEF school kits are giving children in Venezuela the tools to focus on their future

24/09/2019

17-year-old Bodoor, in a UNICEF Makani 'My Space' centre, is in 12th grade in Azraq Refugee Camp and is preparing for her final exams.

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Transitions from school to work

Guidance note on how to support adolescents

24/09/2019

Alisha attending a class at a UNICEF supported Accelerated Education program (AEP) center in Punjab province, Pakistan.

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Every child learns

UNICEF education strategy 2019–2030

16/09/2019

UNICEF installation unveiled at the United Nations headquarters shows the grave scale of child deaths in conflict in 2018

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3,758 school backpacks laid at the United Nations show the grave scale of child deaths in conflict in 2018

As children in many parts of the world return to school, UNICEF is calling for greater protection of children living in conflict

08/09/2019

On 2 September 2019, Jacqueline Maga Znigire, deputy director of The Volcano School of Goma, instructs students on how to protect themselves from Ebola. Here she’s using a digital thermometer to check the temperature of a student. A high temperature is an early sign you might have Ebola.

Press release

Children return to school in Ebola-affected regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

03/09/2019

13-year-old girl who was displaced from the town of Gwoza, where she grew up, due to armed conflict, now she is enrolled in classes in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state in northeast Nigeria.

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Education under threat in West and Central Africa

The right to education is in jeopardy in communities affected by conflict

23/08/2019

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Education in peril in West and Central Africa

Attacks and threats of violence are forcing schools in the region to close. Meet the children who are determined to keep learning

23/08/2019

On 26 June 2019, children take part in an emergency attack simulation, as they practice sheltering and evacuation in the event of an armed attack, at the Yalgho Primary School in Dori, Burkina Faso.

Press release

School closures in West and Central Africa triple since 2017

UNICEF Child Alert warns that upsurge in attacks and threats of violence against schools, students and teachers have pushed more than 1.9 million children out of school

22/08/2019

Bangladesh. Children recite a lesson in a learning space.

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Shortfall in education opportunities deepens despair of refugee Rohingya youth

Two years after mass exodus from Myanmar, quality learning and life skills are crucial to more than 500,000 children sheltered in Bangladesh

16/08/2019

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