In crisis situations, out-of-school children, face heightened risk of abuse and exploitation, trafficking, gender-based violence, early pregnancy, and recruitment into armed groups 一 Adolescent girls are particularly at risk.
In countries facing crisis countries Ukraine, the lives and wellbeing of 5.7 million school-aged girls and boys are under severe threat from a deadly armed conflict 一 together with an additional 128 million children and youth in emergencies and protracted crises around the world. These children and youth are suffering trauma, shelling, displacement, injury and death. Without our urgent support, they will be left behind and neglected.
Sadly, girls are more than twice as likely to be affected by conflict. The benefits of investing in girls’ education are powerful and wide-ranging enough to stop poverty between generations and create sustainable futures.
Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is the United Nations global fund working to ensure that every child affected by armed conflicts and crises has access to a safe, free, and quality education by 2030 but it needs additional funds to achieve this.
Wealthy countries can take bold, collective and game-changing action to finance education for adolescent girls in emergencies and protracted crises before it is too late.
Sign the petition - Urge world leaders to put girls’ education at the top of their agenda by contributing new and substantial funds to ECW.
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