23 May 2016 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today announced the launch of a new fund to better coordinate support for and drive investment in education for children and youth affected by humanitarian emergencies and protracted crises.

“Action now has to happen urgently because of the sheer scale of numbers of children impacted,” said UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown, who presented the ‘Education Cannot Wait’ fund at the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), a two-day conference that opened today in Istanbul, Turkey.

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