You got $90m pledged for education in emergencies.
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PAOV,Thanks to your actions, the Education Cannot Wait fund was just launched at the World Humanitarian Summit with $90 million in pledges and over $100 million expected in coming months.
You did this.
It’s not just us saying this - UN Special Envoy for Education, Gordon Brown, publicly thanked Global Citizens for your campaigning. This $90m could reach around 750,000 kids in crisis this year, getting them back into school.
Send a thank you tweet to World Leaders who pledged at the WHS now.
That’s a big start, but we can’t stop now, while humanitarian emergencies across the world are still disrupting the schooling of nearly 75 million kids - more than half of whom are girls.Dubai Cares, the Netherlands, the UK, the United States of America, and the EU all pledged. We were there to hear all their pledges, as were our friends, Chris and Zach from Salam Neighbor who reached out to you for your help months ago. In spirit and via video were Raouf, the young refugee boy we have told you about and Salma Hayek Pinault, co-Founder of CHIME FOR CHANGE who asked world leaders to pledge and to follow through on their promises.
Istanbul was just the start of this fund and our next goal will be to get millions of dollars more by September from those who did not commit including Canada, Denmark, France, Qatar, Japan and the UAE.
We will need your help over the coming months to make that happen. But in the meantime, thank you from us and from children around the world for doing what you have done.
Yours for humanity,Madge and the Global Citizen team.
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