Education Cannot Wait Allocates US$15 Million in Emergency Education Funding to Support COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response

Education Cannot Wait Allocates US$15 Million in Emergency Education Funding to Support COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response

2 April 2020, New York – The Education Cannot Wait Global Fund (ECW) allocates a total of US$15 million in an initial series of emergency grants for the rapid delivery of holistic education services to protect and support vulnerable children and youth hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 16 countries/emergency contexts. These girls and boys are already impacted by armed conflicts, forced displacement, natural disasters and protracted crises. An additional series of grants to support the response in other crisis-affected countries will be released shortly and reach partners in-country in the coming days.