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“More funding for early childhood development would have a significant impact on my community and country”
Global Youth Ambassadors give their reaction to a ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï report that revealed only 1% of aid for young children goes to pre-primary education.
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One-legged climber treks to Mount Everest to help save Palestinian school
Jarah Alhawamdeh - who lost a limb through cancer - knew he had to do something when a funding crisis threatened the future of his former school.
Four years on, many Chibok families still wait for their schoolgirls to come home
While many of the kidnapped students from Chibok and Dapchi schools have been released, the parents of more than 100 girls still wait in hope.
Many aid donors talk up pre-primary education but fail to deliver the funding
After a ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï report revealed that just 1% of aid for children under five goes to education, we look at what donors say on the subject - and what they actually do.
Dancing and learning, the Nigerian street kids backed by Rihanna and other stars
Model Naomi Campbell also visited the disadvantaged children from Lagos, who are being educated thanks to a caring young choreographer.
“Women’s equality has the power to both transform our economy and our lives”
British broadcaster, writer and campaigner Sandi Toksvig gives a funny and powerful lecture about gender equality and why feminism makes economic sense.
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Getting all girls into school and ending child marriage is the goal for Niger
With fewer than one in 10 girls completing secondary school, the country's president has promised free and compulsory education for everyone up to the age of 16.
Donors and countries must do more to help children into pre-primary education says Graça Machel
The campaigner said every child needs quality services - after a ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï report revealed just 1% of aid to under-fives goes to pre-primary schooling.
Just 1% of early childhood development aid goes to pre-primary education
A report by ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï calls for action as it reveals that millions of young children are at a disadvantage because of a lack of funding in education and learning.
Venezuela’s children suffer in hunger and refugee crisis
Malnutrition and diseases are on the rise and hundreds of thousands have fled the South American country because of hunger and violence.