Education Cannot Wait for Refugee Children in Crisis, says Yasmine Sherif
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Yasmine Sherif in Lebanon with Palestine refugee children. Credit: Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
NEW YORK, Jun 19 2021 (IPS) - With financing, the number of out-of-school refuges could be reduced to zero, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) says, as the world commemorates World Refugee Day.
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with IPS in New York, Sherif shared her vision for a world where dignity and the right to believe in better prospects are returned child refugees - something, she says, can be delivered through education. When you sit down and listen to young refugees in Bangladesh, in Colombia, in Lebanon, or in Uganda, the large majority will tell you they dream of becoming somebody that lives a better life, that helps others, that serves their communities or their country, says Sherif. They know that the pathway there is an education. They understand the value
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