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

Education in emergencies

Education is a lifeline for children in crises.

A smiling young student holds a small chalkboard in a classroom in Côte d’Ivoire.

Education

Every child has the right to go to school and learn.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on school attacks in Afghanistan and Cameroon

A row of young smiling school students sitting on a long bench together with Arabic script on the wall behind them

Global annual results report 2019: Goal Area 2

Progress and results from 2019 by Goal Area 2: every child’s right to education

Children eat school-provided lunch at Qanshalay Primary School in Dollow, Somalia, Tuesday, April 23, 2018. Qanshaley Primary School is just one of many in the region supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF

Futures of 370 million children in jeopardy as school closures deprive them of school meals – UNICEF and WFP

COVID-19: IFRC, UNICEF and WHO issue guidance to protect children and support safe school operations

Guidance includes practical actions and checklists for administrators, teachers, parents and children

Risk-informed education programming for resilience: Guidance note

Philippines. A boy stands outside a prototype High Performance Tent.

On World Education Day, UNICEF unveils latest innovation to improve education in emergencies: The High Performance Tent

Group work helps students to learn from each other. This is one of the techniques teachers are being taught from Pedagogical Advisors to improve quality education at Phonkeo Primary School, Saravane Province Lao PDR.

Addressing the learning crisis

How are education resources distributed across segments of society?

UNICEF/UN0344398/Orozco

A backpack full of potential

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

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.

Transitions from school to work

Guidance note on how to support adolescents

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

Every child learns

UNICEF education strategy 2019–2030

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

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

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.

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

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.

Education under threat in West and Central Africa

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

Education Under Threat

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

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.

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

Bangladesh. Children recite a lesson in a learning space.

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

Rozina Akta (foreground), 22, teaches level 4 students at the UNICEF-supported Learning Centre in Camp 4 of the Kutupalong-Balukhali mega-camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh want to learn

August 2019 update

Zangora CBE Cluster, Surkhrod District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan – 10 April 2019

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore gives remarks during the Third International Conference on Safe Schools

Assiya, 10, stands by a pile of metal debris that was once part of the the Bodyalai girls school, which was destroyed during a bomb blast in 2015, Bodyalai village, Kuz Kunar, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan 9 April 2019.

Afghanistan sees three-fold increase in attacks on schools in one year – UNICEF

As global leaders convene today in Mallorca, Spain, at the third International Conference on Safe Schools, UNICEF calls for an end to the fighting and protection of education

South Sudan. Pole stumps where Ogweni primary school used to be.

You can take their schools but not their dreams

The Safe Schools Declaration aims to defend against education under attack

Sonia, 14, has experienced numerous attacks in and on her way to school in eastern Ukraine.

Attacks on schools quadruple in conflict-hit eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

Since the start of eastern Ukraine’s five-year conflict, more than 750 educational facilities on both sides have been damaged or destroyed due to hostilities

Permanent link to Image: https://weshare.unicef.org/archive/-2AMZIF37FLKD.html UNICEF supporter and singer/songwriter Dua Lipa visits youths at the Lebanese Organisation for Studies and Training (LOST), a UNICEF partner, in Bednayel, Lebanon, April 13, 2019. LOST is a Lebanese NGO that promotes peace education and social cohesion among youth – especially between the Lebanese and Syrian youth.

Recording artist Dua Lipa visits Lebanon with UNICEF to meet refugee children and young people

BTS UNICEF ENDviolence

#ENDviolence with BTS

Help end bullying in schools by sharing kind notes

The first generation of children born in Za'atari Refugee Camp on their first day of school

Best start to education for thousands of preschool children in Za’atari and Azraq refugee camps

Niger, 2018, education

School closures in the Sahel double in the last two years due to growing insecurity – UNICEF

Worsening violence across Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger disrupts education for more than 400,000 children

Children in Jordan play with LEGO

Children in Jordan learn through play with UNICEF and the LEGO Foundation

A boy and a girl walk down the road in Ukraine

Growing up in eastern Ukraine today – anything but normal

More than four years of conflict in eastern Ukraine have taken a devastating toll on the education system.

A child stands in the remains of a classroom in eastern Ukraine.

Schools under attack in eastern Ukraine

Where going to school is fraught with danger

Indonesia earthquake and tsunami. A girl stands by her destroyed house.

Back to school one month after Indonesia’s tsunami

Around 184,000 students have been affected, including 11-year-old Sophia

A student stands in the ruins of one of his former classrooms, which was destroyed in June 2015, at the Aal Okab school in Saada, Saada Governorate, Yemen, Monday 24 April 2017. Students now attend lessons in UNICEF tents nearby,

US $ 70 million to UNICEF to support education programmes in Yemen through monthly cash stipends to unpaid teachers across country

A girl stands at the front of the classroom, Idlib

In Idlib, schools reopen amid uncertainty and fear

Determined to keep their futures alive, children return to school

Children smile in a refugee camp in Bangladesh

Time to act for education on the move

75 million children are either out of school or have had their education disrupted due to conflict and emergency

12-year-old Azmi has been displaced from his home due to conflict in Yemen. Azmi wants to go back home so he can go back to his school and see his friends again. March 2018.

1 in 3 children and young people is out of school in countries affected by war or natural disasters – UNICEF

Adolescents in emergency countries face grim future with 2 in 5 15-17 year olds never completing primary school

A boy stands among rubble, Afghanistan

Risking their lives to get an education

After a string of deadly attacks on Afghan schools, children and young people struggle to overcome trauma while continuing their education

A boy is vaccinated as part of a routine vaccination campaign in areas affected by recent floods in Lao PDR.

Lao PDR flood emergency

How UNICEF is helping affected children and families to stay safe and healthy

UNICEF/UN0226391/Brown

Rohingya refugee children face an uncertain future

One year after their mass exodus fleeing violence in Myanmar, Rohingya children remain at risk

A girl sits in a classroom, El Salvador

13 reasons why we need to end violence in schools

No child should be afraid to get an education

A smiling boy in the village of Zaliohoua, in the West of Côte d'Ivoire.

10 ways UNICEF helps save and improve children’s lives

From tackling child marriage in India to providing life-saving nutrition in Syria

Three girls sit at a desk, Iraq

New school, new friends, new start

Rebuilding education in Mosul

A 15-year-old girl writes in a notebook in Afghanistan.

Overcoming the odds to get into class in Afghanistan

With nearly half of all children missing out on school, there are stories of hope behind the numbers

A doctor holds a child in his arms in the Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

UNICEF Child Alert | Kasai: A children’s crisis

What is happening in Kasai is truly a children’s crisis

Education under attack

UNICEF welcomes Education Under Attack report

A girl sits in a classroom at school in Marinka, Ukraine, November 2017.

School children caught in the crossfire

More than four years of conflict in eastern Ukraine have taken a devastating toll on the education system

A school director holds a shell fragment and bullets in eastern Ukraine

Schools in the firing line

Children in eastern Ukraine face grave dangers to learn

A girl is displaced from Taiz, Yemen because of the conflict

Yemen conflict: A devastating toll for children

Two million children are out of school due to the ongoing crisis

A girl is displaced from Taiz, Yemen because of the conflict

In Yemen, children’s education devastated

After three years of war, nearly 2 million children are now out of school

A boy with his head wrapped in a bandage, Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea earthquake response

Three huge earthquakes have left thousands in danger

Children in classroom in eastern Ukraine

Sirens and bomb shelters

Going to school in eastern Ukraine