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NATIONS need to invest in schools instead of war, a leading charity said today on UN International Day of Education.
On the sixth United Nations International Day of Education, the charity Education Cannot Wait called on world leaders to “end wars and armed conflicts and focus on our common humanity to embrace the vast potential that learning offers in uniting our world.”
The charity said the world is being torn apart by injustice, oppression, racism, xenophobia, fear, greed and violent means of conflict resolution.
In Gaza, no child — among over 600,000 girls and boys — has access to education. In Afghanistan, 2.5 million school-aged girls and women — around 80 per cent — are out of school because of their sex, systematically denied their human right to an education.
ECW said: “Around 224 million children, impacted by the compounding forces of armed conflicts, climate change and forced displacement, are in dire, urgent need of quality education.
“Instead of investing in more wars, leading to more human suffering, injustices and extreme poverty, let us heed the words of Nelson Mandela: ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’.”
ECW is a New York-based global fund for education set up in 2015.
