World Refugee Day: Reaching Children in Crisis
Teresa Wolverton is part of the WISE Emerging Leaders cohort of 2020. Her work with Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street, illustrates the importance of reaching refugee children with early childhood education. Today, on World Refugee Day, she reflects on how this year’s theme, ‘Every Action Counts’ relates to the educational needs of children. 1. What is […]
Restoring Hope, Rebuilding Futures: the Vital Role of Education
Special Focus : Accelerating Innovation in Refugee Education Migration and displacement dominate our news media, and for good reason: launching its annual Global Trends study, UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency reported that that 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2016 – a total bigger than the population of the United Kingdom. 22.5 […]
Making Early Education a Priority for Refugee Children
The United Nations calls the Syrian refugee crisis the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. Within this context, one problem is front and center: the lost generation of children, forced from their homes by war, their lives and hopes blighted by trauma and destruction, their basic right to education unfulfilled. And we know that […]