Do you know what today is?
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Friend, Did you know today is World Refugee Day?
This is a day to come together and celebrate our common humanity and diversity, and to open our hearts to refugees everywhere. It is also an opportunity to continue to call on Canada to do the same by pledging to the Education Cannot Wait fund.
Recently your actions helped launch... the Education Cannot Wait fund at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul with $90 million in pledges and over $100 million expected in coming months. This could reach around 750,000 kids in crisis this year, getting them back into school. This is incredible, but we can’t stop now. Humanitarian emergencies across the world are still disrupting the schooling of nearly 75 million children.
We need your help to ask Canada to step up!
Join Global Citizens in calling on the Canadian Government to seize this opportunity by making a strong commitment of $75M by sending an email to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion and Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau.
Currently there are 17 million school-age refugee and internally displaced children who face particular challenges often losing out on their education. There is still much to be done to ensure that these children are able to go to school - and it all starts with you!
Thanks for doing what you do,
Dominic and the Global Citizen team
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