The Next Generation is at Crisis


The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is of a scale most people alive today have never seen. Worldwide, the outbreak is claiming lives and livelihoods as health systems buckle, education is disrupted and families struggle to stay afloat. 

Communities across the globe are rising to the challenge – from health and social workers risking their lives to protect the most vulnerable, to young people deploying innovative ways to share public health messages. 

Yet, even as the spread of the virus slows in some countries, its social toll has come fast and hard. And in many places, it comes at the expense of the most marginalized children.

An entire generation of children has now seen its education interrupted. At their peak, nationwide closures disrupted the learning of 1.57 billion students – or 91 per cent of schoolchildren worldwide – with devastating consequences.

Marginalized children pay the heaviest price as inequalities in learning widen. Some 346 million young people do not have access to the internet for remote learning. And for those who rely on school-based nutrition programmes, closures mean being cut off from the food they need to learn and thrive.

Previous shutdowns have also shown that children who are out of school for extended periods, especially girls, are less likely to return.  

We must do more to ensure all children have equal access to quality learning. Governments must prioritize the reopening of schools and take all possible measures to do so safely. Where schools remain closed, governments must scale up home learning options, including no-tech and low-tech solutions, with an immediate focus on the most marginalized children. 

Source

https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/agenda-for-action

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Comments

  1. JC13 December 2021 at 20:13

    Hi Christan! I like your post about children having equal access to quality learning. But unless the pandemic stops or the cases goes down, children still have risks getting the virus.

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