The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday that it will significantly scale up support to help children in 145 countries continue their learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As nationwide school closures disrupt the education for more than 80 percent of students worldwide, UNICEF has allocated additional funding to accelerate work with governments and partners in more than 145 low- and middle-income countries, said the fund in a press release.
The initial global allocation of 13 million U.S. dollars -- 8.8 million dollars of which is from a contribution made by the Global Partnership for Education -- will be catalytic by supporting national governments and a wide range of education partners in each country to develop plans to enable a rapid, system-wide response, it said.
The initiative will enable countries, including Armenia, to prepare alternative learning programs in the case of school closures and help schools keep children and t...
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