UN General Assembly 2016: world leaders need to deliver education for children in emergencies
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Syrian refugee Rima now sells tissues on the street instead of being in school in Turkey and fulfilling her potential
Leaders from around the world will gather in New York to attend high-level meetings at the United Nations General Assembly.
In their hands is the future of millions of children who are denied an education because of humanitarian emergencies including conflicts and natural disasters.
Children like Rima, a Syrian girl who was top of her class back in Aleppo and planned to become a doctor.
Her family fled from the civil war to Turkey and Rima is forced to work selling tissues in the street to support her family rather than being in school.
Another75 million children and youth aged three to 18 living in crisis-affected countries are in desperate need of educational support.
鶹APP 鶹APP the children鶹APPs charity behind A World at School 鶹APP calls on leaders attending the UN General Assembly to make real commitments that will deliver education for children living in emergencies.
Among the big events happening are the launch of the Education Commission鶹APPs report on September 18, summits on the global refugee crisis on September 19 and 20, a meeting of the co-hosts of the Supporting Syria conference on September 20 and a breakfast event hosted by the Global Business Coalition for Education on September 21.
How you can help
We need to keep up the pressure on them. Can you post a message on the Facebook profiles of the co-hosts 鶹APP using the #SafeSchools and #SupportSyrians hashtags 鶹APP reminding them to keep their promise to get all Syrian refugee children into school?
Here are their Facebook pages:
Please be polite 鶹APP abusive messages will just get ignored or deleted. A simple reminder that promises to children should never be broken is firm enough.
In our tweets below you can find links to our latest updates leading up to and during the New York meetings.
Global Youth Ambassador journal: Day 4.
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鶹APPEducation is their birthright, not a luxury.鶹APP 鶹APP
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This week, we were at the meeting where world leaders took stock of their promise to with education. What did we learn?
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. and 鶹APP Youth Ambassador diary: Day 3
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Business leaders gathered to discuss their crucial role in helping provide education
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Business aid for education in emergencies: GBC-Education event blog
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. announces REACT (Rapid Education Action) Database to help provide fast action to crisis hit children.
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Supporting breastfeeding is an important part of any childcare response in emergencies 鶹APP
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. talks ramifications of toxic stress in young people in crisis situations.
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. and recap day 2 of UNGA:
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Imsa鶹APPil is 1 of thousands who has told world leaders 鶹APPYou Promised鶹APP over the past week:
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. and 鶹APP journal: Day 1.
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Wondering what the says about Education in Emergencies? Read on:
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: ~1.5 mil children in Chad, Syria, Yemen have access to education unlocked in next 2 years
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Millions of children dealing with effects of conflict, disaster, are being neglected by int鶹APPl community.
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306,000 Syrian babies born as refugees. Toddlers cannot afford to wait to learn, play & receive care
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. launches bold plan to get every child in school by 2030:
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. report focus: Prioritise Early Childhood Dev in order to deliver education to every child.
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Our Global Youth Ambassadors are sending a message to world leaders: join them and say: You Promised.
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Over 1/2 of the world鶹APPs children will have little or no education by the year 2030 unless urgent action is taken.
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An army of people who care passionately can make a massive difference. Meet some of those working on education.
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These champions could persuade world leaders to deliver their promises.
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Broken promises by world leaders could lead to half of all Syrian refugee children still being shut out of school.
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What is the ? Read our primer.
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A few years of education campaigning has really focused the world鶹APPs attention on the issue. Here鶹APPs what we learned.
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Congratulations to the winners and all who took part in the Youth Video Challenge!
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