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To achieve this, Education Cannot Wait has developed a four-year strategic plan and donors recently pledged over $826 million, which will help the fund and its partners reach 20 million more children caught up in some of the worst crises. “We must work together to ensure girls everywhere can access high-quality science, technology, engineering and maths education, and realize our collective dreams of a better and more equal world for all.” Urgent assistance needed “So many people are being left behind,” she warned. “These are the future scientists and leaders of tomorrow,” she stressed, calling for continued support for girls’ education in hotspots like Afghanistan, where she and her teammates fled from in 2021.

She said she accepted the fund’s nomination “on behalf of all the girls in the world who dream – against all odds – of an education”. To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated on February 11, the United Nations Global Fund has announced its new Global Champion: Somaya Faruqi, the former captain of the Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team who made made international headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic after building a ventilator out of used car parts. I call on world leaders to help us and give us the opportunity to learn and lead our future.Īlthough it is not clear if she will be able to continue studying, for now, with support from the global fund and its partner Street Child, Zehab and others can still participate in a non-formal community learning program.

“But I wonder if I could not realize my dreams, because girls are not allowed to go to school in Afghanistan. “I want to study and become a well-known doctor,” Zehab wrote on his postcard.

Since the return to power of the Taliban in 2021, new rules ban girls from education and deprive women of their human rights. Postcards from Afghanistanĭreams of being in school also came via several postcards from children in Afghanistan. The grant will support a three-year initiative to accelerate inclusive education in emergencies for children with disabilities, including those from underrepresented groups such as Indigenous communities. In line with the Agenda’s overarching goal of “leaving no one behind”, the global fund targets communities in need, including a recent $1.2 million grant to the International Disability Alliance (IDA ), which operates with partners in 200 countries and territories. The campaign, launched in late January, calls on world leaders and public and private sector donors to deliver on their pledges to achieve education for all by 2030, as outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. “We need to listen to the children of the world,” said Global Fund Director Yasmine Sherif.

More than 60 children shared their dreams with the United Nations Global Fund for Education, including 11-year-old Oliva from Madagascar, who wrote ‘education is the only way to success’. To date, the campaign has received more than 60 letters, drawings and videos, with more arriving every day from girls and boys supported by UN-funded initiatives in more than 20 crisis-affected countries. As of March 2022, the United Nations Global Fund for Education has reached 6.9 million children and adolescents. With the help of UNHCR and the fund, Lucas returned to school, pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor. The UN’s $1 billion Global Fund for Education is working to do just that, partnering with governments, public and private donors, UN agencies, civil society and other humanitarian and development actors to drive progress and end siled approaches. Writing from a refugee camp in Bangladesh, 11-year-old Zawad dreams of becoming an English teacher.