Save the Children: Almost 10 Million Children May Never Return to School Following COVID-19 Lockdown
July 13, 2020
July 13, 2020
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, July 13 -- Save the Children issued the following news release:
Deep budget cuts to education and rising poverty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could force at least 9.7 million children out of school forever by the end of this year, with millions more falling behind in learning, Save the Children warns in a new report launched.
Girls are likely to be much worse affected than boys, with many forced into early marriage. As the impacts of the reces . . .
Deep budget cuts to education and rising poverty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could force at least 9.7 million children out of school forever by the end of this year, with millions more falling behind in learning, Save the Children warns in a new report launched.
Girls are likely to be much worse affected than boys, with many forced into early marriage. As the impacts of the reces . . .