Education Commission Chair Gordon Brown, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Commission Co-convener Irina Bokova and Commissioners Julia Gillard and Anthony Lake joined together in Istanbul to launch the Education Cannot Wait fund.
On the eve of the inaugural World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Education Commission Director Justin W. van Fleet encourages the international community to ante up and support the new “Education Cannot Wait” funding facility for education in emergencies.
Education Commission Chair Gordon Brown makes the case for the new education in emergencies fund, “Education Cannot Wait,” ahead of its historic launch at next week’s World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.
Speaking at the UN Noon Briefing, Education Commission Chair Gordon Brown affirmed “We believe that this fund will offer young people hope.”
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Education Commission Director Justin W. van Fleet makes the case for education in emergencies financing and looks ahead to the World Humanitarian Summit later this month where a visionary EiE fund will be announced
Education Commission Chair Gordon Brown sat down with CCTV to discuss why “Education is, in a sense, the key to everything else that we are trying to do to relieve poverty, to deal with health inequalities, to tackle the environment and to build stronger economies.”
African Educational Trust’s Lynn Davies on education in emergencies and the need to interrupt the “relentless cycles of conflict”
The Nepal earthquake is one more reminder of why the world needs an education in emergencies fund