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A non-governmental organisation, the Goal Prime Organisation Nigeria (GPON), has begun a campaign to strengthen climate resilience and disaster preparedness in Katsina State.

In April 2025, 25 Education Cluster partners implemented in 12 out of 13 Divisions and reached a total of 32,612 persons. Among them, 16,656 (51%) people benefited from cluster activities for the first time, with

15,956 (49%) repeated from previous months. Of the total reached, 32,505 (99%) were children and 107 (0.33%) were adults. 768 (2.35%) new persons living with disabilities were reached. April 2025 witnessed a 30% increase in persons reached compared to March 2025. The top three Divisions with the most reach were....

Founded in 2015 by Gordon Brown, Education Cannot Wait works to help refugee families provide better access to education for their children. Due to the large number of Venezuelan refugees in Colombia, this makes a significant portion of the poverty population that needs better access to education in Colombia. It also helps local Colombian children who were internally displaced due to armed conflict as part of its programs to provide better educational resources. So far, it has built 215 schools around the country and trained over 5,000 teachers as of 2024.

In the realm of humanitarian crises, the immediate focus often gravitates towards providing water, food, and shelter – essential provisions for survival. However, Yasmine Sherif, a distinguished expert in humanitarian law, a human rights lawyer, and the esteemed Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) with decades of experience at the United Nations, offers a compelling argument for prioritizing a fundamental human right often overlooked in emergency settings: Education.

Utdanning er vel så viktig for barn og unge som opplever krig i dag, som det var 85 år siden.

Kronikk av Randi Gramshaug, seniorrådgiver ved seksjon for utdanning og forskning i Norad og Silje Sjøvaag Skeie, stipendiat ved fakultet for utdanningsvitenskap og internasjonale studier ved OsloMet.

Over 200,000 children were newly displaced in April, reversing March’s temporary decline. Sudan remains the largest child displacement crisis globally, with over 5 million children forcibly displaced.
Famine conditions have been confirmed in five localities, with projections indicating it could extend to four more by May.
UNICEF and partners scaled up life-saving support, reaching 2.4 million people with safe water, delivering 12 million vaccines as part of national child survival campaigns, and increasing the screening and referral of children with severe acute malnutrition by 25 per cent compared to the previous month.

When Nicole and her family left their home in Venezuela, she thought all hope was lost. Through the support of a UNICEF program delivered with funding from Education Cannot Wait, Nicole is back in school and thriving in Peru.

As Nigeria celebrated Children’s Day 2025, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has raised grave concerns over the state of children’s welfare in the North-East, revealing that 72 percent of primary school graduates in Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states are unable to read simple text.

At a press conference held in Maiduguri on Tuesday, Joseph Senesie, Chief of UNICEF’s Maiduguri Field Office, described the situation as dire.

He emphasized that millions of children across the region remain deprived of their most basic rights — including access to education, healthcare, and protection.

Air raid sirens forced children in Ukraine to miss an average of one in every five school lessons during the past academic year that ends this week with pupils preparing the third consecutive summer under war, Save the Children said.

In some regions, pupils missed over half of their classes during the 2024-2025 academic year due to air raid sirens, according to a Save the Children analysis of publicly available data [2] about the frequency of air raid alerts and impact on education from 2 September 2024 to 11 May 2025.

Air raid sirens forced children in Ukraine to miss an average of one in every five school lessons during the past academic year that ends this week with pupils preparing the third consecutive summer under war, Save the Children said.

Education is a humanitarian lifeline for the world's most vulnerable children. Our investment in their education today is an investment in global security, economic stability and continued growth in the 21(st) century.

The following content is by Yasmine Sherif, Education Cannot Wait Executive Director

The challenges facing many parts of the African continent today are vast and immense. From the surge in violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to all-out-war in Sudan, years of progress are being obliterated by bombs, killings and other grave violations of international law.

Education is a humanitarian lifeline for the world's most vulnerable children. Our investment in their education today is an investment in global security, economic stability and continued growth in the 21st century.

The following content is by Yasmine Sherif, Education Cannot Wait Executive Director