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From ambition to action: conference builds momentum for early years summit
Business champions to help shape historic early years summit
City mayors lead the way as champions for the early years
‘Children are like little sponges’: early learning can set them up for life
Learning is one of the key areas of nurturing care in ¹ú²úÊÓƵ's #5for 5 campaign that very young children need to reach their full potential.
Children’s terror as Aleppo kindergarten is rocked by shelling
There are conflicting reports about the circumstances and victims but one thing is certain - schools should never come under attack.
Sweet potato project gives vital vitamin boost to preschool children in Malawi
In an initiative to tackle malnutrition, children at a charity's preschools help to plant and harvest the healthy vegetables then eat them for lunch.Â
Florida helps thousands of migrant children back into school after hurricane trauma
More than 11,000 students from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are being educated in the US state after their families fled the storm devastation.
Millions of children under five still die each year from preventable causes
Progress has saved millions of young children - but treatable diseases and poor conditions are still contributing to the 15,000 deaths per day.
US cuts to aid ‘would be catastrophic’ for education of Palestinian children
The UN agency that looks after more than 500,000 school students has warned that a major drop in funding would seriously hit its programmes.
Al-Shabaab targets child recruits and schools in Somalia, says rights group
Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that students were forcibly taken from schools and communities were ordered to hand over children.
Schools in Ukraine still under attack as ‘forgotten’ conflict rages on
More than 60 schools were damaged or had to close in 2017 because of the fighting, say humanitarian groups working in the Eastern European country.
$330,000 donated after frozen hair boy’s journey to school touches people’s hearts
The money sent for Wang Fuman will also be used to help other children in the poor rural Chinese community and their school.
Stranded Rohingya children living in squalid camps with little or no schooling
While the spotlight has been on the refugees in Bangladesh, those left behind in Myanmar desperately need education to give them hope of a brighter future.