Classroom crisis: Avert a ‘generational catastrophe’, urges UN chief
Oct 23, 2020, at 03:28 pm
New York: The world is at risk of suffering “a generational catastrophe” as COVID-19 wreaks havoc on the education of students globally, the UN chief said on Thursday.
Easing ‘classroom crisis’ in Côte d’Ivoire, brick by (plastic) brick
Jul 30, 2019, at 09:54 am
New York, July 30 (IBNS): In an innovative partnership, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and a Colombian social enterprise announced on Monday that it had broken ground on a first-of-its-kind factory to convert plastic waste in Côte d'Ivoire into modular, easy-to-assemble, low-cost plastic bricks for classrooms in the West African country.