Shemar, a twelve-year-old from East Baltimore, is good at math, and Karen Ngosso, his fourth-grade math teacher, at Abbottston Elementary School, is one reason why. “I would try to pump him up and tell him, ‘You’re a good student,’ ” she said. But she knew that he didn’t get enough sleep, and he was...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is changing family life. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates 1·38 billion children are out of school or child care, without access to group activities, team sports, or playgrounds. Parents and caregivers are attempting to...
In episode four of ‘Coping with COVID-19’, the girls tell us about the kind of world they would like to see. This year, 16 girls from nine different countries used their mobile phones to record their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our new five-episode series, ‘Coping with COVID-19’, shows how...
This year, 16 girls from nine different countries used their mobile phones to record their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our new five-episode series, ‘Coping with COVID-19’, shows how life has changed for these girls, including the challenges they’ve faced with access to education, gender...
This year, 16 girls from nine different countries used their mobile phones to record their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our new five-episode series, ‘Coping with COVID-19’, shows how life has changed for these girls, including the challenges they’ve faced with access to education, gender...
Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action This guidance note is meant to assist humanitarian actors, youth-led organizations, and young people themselves across sectors, working at local, country, regional, and global levels in their response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. It begins...
Biography: Florencia Librizzi is a sustainability and education professional as well as an international attorney, licensed to practice law in Argentina and New York State. As Head of Program and Partnerships, she leads the SDG Academy, flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development...
Biography: Hanna-Tina Fischer, MSc is Senior Research Associate at the CPC Learning Network at Columbia University and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Population and Family Health, pursuing a DrPH in Leadership in Global Health and Humanitarian Systems. Her work focuses on the impact of...
Introduction and timeline of the pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread from a local outbreak to a global pandemic within months. As of 29 June 2020, over 10 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 499,000 deaths have been...