UN World Humanitarian Summit to Launch New Education Fund Next Week

The United Nations will hold a World Humanitarian Summit next week with more than 100 participating countries, companies and philanthropists to ‘create a major breakthrough’ and help millions of children. The summit will focus on the children whose study has been interrupted by conflicts or natural disasters, as announced by the UN’s special envoy for education, Gordon Brown, on Monday.

“It is designed to cater the needs of 30 million displaced girls and boys, the largest population of girls and boys uprooted since 1945 – 20 million of whom have no choice at the moment and are unable to go to school,” Brown said when asked about the summit’s standpoint. He also explained the summit’s character and its function that children around the globe expects food and shelter but ‘development aid is long terms and is not geared to an emergency.’

Also, a statistics from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has showcased that the education aid receives less than two percent of emergency funding. The new education fund was said to expect almost five years of educational emergency for children but the child have to refuge from his country for as many as 10 years. The special Ambassador, Brown has also asserted that ‘missing out on schooling is becoming a full blown global crisis.’