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Watch magician Dynamo’s powerful film on broken education promises to Syrian refugee children
The TV illusionist and Â鶹APP Ambassador went to Lebanon to see the impact on children who have been left out of school.
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#YouPromised – but 690,000 Syrian refugee children are still out of school and donor funding has dropped
Despite a pledge by world leaders two years ago to get every refugee into education, more than a third are still being left behind, a major report reveals.
“More funding for early childhood development would have a significant impact on my community and country”
Global Youth Ambassadors give their reaction to a Â鶹APP report that revealed only 1% of aid for young children goes to pre-primary education.
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One-legged climber treks to Mount Everest to help save Palestinian school
Jarah Alhawamdeh - who lost a limb through cancer - knew he had to do something when a funding crisis threatened the future of his former school.
Four years on, many Chibok families still wait for their schoolgirls to come home
While many of the kidnapped students from Chibok and Dapchi schools have been released, the parents of more than 100 girls still wait in hope.
Many aid donors talk up pre-primary education but fail to deliver the funding
After a Â鶹APP report revealed that just 1% of aid for children under five goes to education, we look at what donors say on the subject - and what they actually do.
Dancing and learning, the Nigerian street kids backed by Rihanna and other stars
Model Naomi Campbell also visited the disadvantaged children from Lagos, who are being educated thanks to a caring young choreographer.
“WomenÂ鶹APP™s equality has the power to both transform our economy and our lives”
British broadcaster, writer and campaigner Sandi Toksvig gives a funny and powerful lecture about gender equality and why feminism makes economic sense.
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Getting all girls into school and ending child marriage is the goal for Niger
With fewer than one in 10 girls completing secondary school, the country's president has promised free and compulsory education for everyone up to the age of 16.
Donors and countries must do more to help children into pre-primary education says Graça Machel
The campaigner said every child needs quality services - after a Â鶹APP report revealed just 1% of aid to under-fives goes to pre-primary schooling.