Global Partnership for Education’s Post

Did you know that there may be at least 22.4 million young people with disabilities living in an emergency context? Faced with compounding challenges, accessing safe, inclusive and quality learning spaces is often challenging, if not impossible, for them. In our recent blog, Myriam Jaafar and Mckinney, Rachel of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and Sophia D'Angelo, PhD present 7 principles to help educators and make education more inclusive for children with disabilities in emergency contexts: http://g.pe/760a50QgqQ5 #TransformingEducation #SDG4

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Anne Kukali

Educationist, Researcher, Education consultant, lecturer

10mo

It's important that we need to think and act about children and young people living with disabilities in emergencies. They miss out on education due to their disabilities and the emergency situations.

How could i be of help are you hiring some to take care and be advocate of such?

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Anneley Willemse

Senior Programme Quality Assurance Coordinator: Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST)

10mo

Thanks for sharing, Nolan. I'm so happy to see that mention is made of a safe learning environment for children with disabilities, because this factor can so often be overlooked. In fact, this should be the case for all children. 🙏

Abikar Hussein Bashir

Director of Programs, Disability Aid Foundation-DAF | Founder, Al-Basiir School for the Blind | Disability Specialist: Advocate for Disability Inclusive Development in #Somalia.

10mo

Thanks for sharing

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