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From Pakistan to Ukraine to Venezuela to vast stretches of sub-Saharan Africa, rising crises and climate disasters are taking an added toll on the most vulnerable — children deprived of school.
“It is horrendous, and it’s hard to imagine,” said Yasmine Sherif, head of Education Cannot Wait, a UN fund that focuses on education in crisis zones.
“They’ve lost everything, and on top of it, they have lost their access to a quality education,” she said in a recent interview.
Sherif spoke to AFP ahead of a UN summit on the education crisis to take place Monday, a day before the annual General Assembly.
