... make three key points. First, when more than 250 million children are out of school… and another 330 million children are failing to achieve the most basic learning outcomes… we cannot ...
... Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Region for SOS Children’s Village International, he is responsible for the region’s ... humanitarian, and advocacy programmes with a focus on children and youth, and was recently promoted with an expanded role to lead and ...
... many promises and some advances, there are 263 million children and youth out of school - 60% of them between the ages of 15 and 17, a ... many of those in school are not learning – nearly 70% of children in poorer countries are unable to understand a basic text by age 10, ...
... to what they are asking for: The chance to send their children to school. A safe path to walk on without fear of attack. ... holds an annual session on the situation of women and children in armed conflict. The challenge now is to ensure these ...
... safe passage for health workers to access and vaccinate children. Third, we need the commitment of the global community ... fill the funding gaps and keep this promise to the world’s children. We know when children are protected from polio, they ...
... to freely decide the number, timing and spacing of their children. Fewer unintended pregnancies mean fewer maternal and infant deaths, ... September, we launched a new Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ health to accelerate progress. The new ...
... cesarean sections or had had these rapes in front of their children, I don’t know how they managed to tell us that. In some cases, ... to be a lifelong healing process for many, many women and children in Ethiopia. For that alone, the Ethiopian leadership and the ...
... upon seeing a picture of what he thought were sleeping children in Africa. When he learned these children were actually in comas caused by malaria, he took action. Since then, ...
... rebuild your city. You are building a better world for our children. After the horror of that dark day, 65 years ago, you might ... with the fear of sickness and the after-effects on your children ? for years, even generations. You have spoken to us, ...
... adoption of the New York Declaration will mean that “more children can attend school; more workers can securely seek jobs abroad, instead ... solutions. · Ensure that all refugee and migrant children are receiving education within a few months of arrival. · ...
