Former British Prime Minster Gordon Brown on Monday May 16,2016 announced the
creation of the United Nations’ first humanitarian fund for the
education of refugee children.
Acting in his role as UN special envoy for global education, Brown said the fund hopes to reach many of the estimated 20 million school-age refugees and displaced persons around the globe who are being denied an education as part of “the largest population of displaced girls and boy since 1945.”
Gordon Brown said the number of children who are missing out on schooling due to displacement is becoming a global crisis that will haunt the world for generations.
“When we ask ourselves what breaks the lives of once thriving young children, it’s not just the Mediterranean wave that submerges the life vest and it’s not just the food convoy that does not arrive in Syria, it’s also the absence of hope - the soul crushing certainty that there is nothing to plan or prepare for, not even a place in school,” Brown said, speaking by telephone to reporters at the UN.
The initiative, entitled “Education Cannot Wait,” will be formally launched at next week’s World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul and seeks to raise $3.85 billion from some 100 donors in the public and private sectors over the next five years.
Acting in his role as UN special envoy for global education, Brown said the fund hopes to reach many of the estimated 20 million school-age refugees and displaced persons around the globe who are being denied an education as part of “the largest population of displaced girls and boy since 1945.”
Gordon Brown said the number of children who are missing out on schooling due to displacement is becoming a global crisis that will haunt the world for generations.
“When we ask ourselves what breaks the lives of once thriving young children, it’s not just the Mediterranean wave that submerges the life vest and it’s not just the food convoy that does not arrive in Syria, it’s also the absence of hope - the soul crushing certainty that there is nothing to plan or prepare for, not even a place in school,” Brown said, speaking by telephone to reporters at the UN.
The initiative, entitled “Education Cannot Wait,” will be formally launched at next week’s World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul and seeks to raise $3.85 billion from some 100 donors in the public and private sectors over the next five years.
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