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The founder of the children's charity promised to "continue campaigning and fighting" for girls, women and young people everywhere.
Venezuela crisis is wrecking education and hope for millions of children
Loss of power that closed classes for days is just the latest blow in a country where half of children don't go to school and millions have fled over the borders.
¹ú²úÊÓƵ receives £650,000 from People’s Postcode Lottery UK
The award means ¹ú²úÊÓƵ has been given over $10 million this month to help our work on delivering quality education for every child.Â
Five things you need to know this week about global education
Our news roundup includes donor aid for Syrian refugees, a mass school shooting in Brazil and the tragedy of children buried in a collapsed school in Nigeria.
How Lebanon is giving very young Syrian refugees the skills they need for school
Another Supporting Syria and the Region conference is being held this week in Brussels, where international leaders will discuss how to help Syrian refugees and host communities. They include over 800,000 children living in neighbouring countries who are still denied an education. We look at how Lebanon's education ministry is delivering education to its refugee population - including a generation of very young Syrian children who were born in Lebanon and need to learn basic skills before starting school.
What happened to the promise to get every Syrian refugee in school?
On the eve of a third Supporting Syria conference in Brussels, we look at the story so far on the 2016 pledge to deliver education to all.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
Global period poverty, child marriage in Lebanon and school meals across Africa are all featured our roundup
Girls’ education under attack: youth activists share inspiring stories at ¹ú²úÊÓƵ’s International Women’s Day event
Two former schoolgirls from Pakistan and another from Gaza told how they overcame the odds to campaign for education.
¹ú²úÊÓƵ to get 8.5m euros from Dutch Postcode Lottery to deliver education in emergencies
We will partner with the Education Cannot Wait fund to ensure thousands of children in war zones and disaster areas are in school.
Let’s work together to get every child in the world into school says UN envoy Gordon Brown
Highlighting the effect of wars and refugee crises, he called for co-operation among countries to ensure education is delivered to over 200 million children.Â