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Global Fund Gives Kids in Crisis-Plagued Sahel Chance at Education

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - A global education fund is providing tens of thousands of
   Sahelian children in crisis with a quality education, bringing hope to
   boys and girls who have known nothing but violence and sorrow in their
   young lives. Education Cannot Wait, a funding mechanism set up at the
   World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, globally is helping more than 1.4
   million children in emergencies go back to school.

   More than 75 million children caught in conflict, natural disasters and
   other emergencies are being deprived of an education. Children in the
   Sahel, a region just south of the Sahara Desert, are among the most
   vulnerable. In Central Mali, armed conflict has forced the closure of
   more than 900 schools, depriving an estimated 280,000 children of an
   education.

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