LatinNews Daily - 30 March 2023

* The director of the United Nations Education Cannot Wait (ECW) fund, Yasmine Sherif, has announced that ECW will increase its investments aimed at supporting education in Colombia. According to an ECW press release, “ECW’s support to the current Multi-Year Resilience Programme exceeds US$12 million, and the Fund has allocated an additional US$12 million for the next three-year phase, which, once approved, will bring the overall investment in Colombia to over US$28 million.” The ECW programme is aimed at improving Colombia’s educational support for children and adolescents from Venezuela, internally displaced children, and vulnerable indigenous and afro-Colombian communities. According to ECW, the school dropout rate for Colombian children in 2021 was 3.62% (3.2% for girls and 4.2% for boys). Among Venezuelans that figure rises to 6.4%, and it reaches 17% for internally displaced children.  

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