Save the Children (Save the Children), today, Monday, warned that the new Corona virus has caused an "unprecedented educational emergency", because around 9.7 million students affected by school closures are now at risk of not returning to their classes again.
The British Charity Association relied on UNESCO data to show that the closures imposed in April to contain Corona kept 1.6 billion students away from their schools and universities, or about 90 percent of the world's total number of students.
In a report entitled "Save our education," the association said: "For the first time in human history, the education of an entire generation of children has been disrupted worldwide."
She added that the economic repercussions of the health crisis could lead to impoverishment of 90 to 117 million additional children, with the ability to enter schools affected.
And with conditions forcing boys to enter the workforce or girls to marry early to support their families, this situation could lead between 7 and 9.7 million children to leave their schools permanently.
Meanwhile, the charity warned that the crisis could leave a deficit of $ 77 billion in education budgets in low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2021.
"About 10 million children may never return to school, and this is an unprecedented educational emergency, and governments must urgently invest in education," said Enger Ashing, CEO of Enforce Children.
"We are facing the risk of an unparalleled budget cut that will lead to an explosion of the current inequality crisis between the rich and the poor, and between boys and girls."
"We know that the poorest and most marginalized children have suffered the greatest loss, due to the lack of access to distance education or any kind of education over the course of half a school year."
"The promise the world has made to ensuring that all children have a quality education by 2030 will be eroded for years," she said, citing UN goals.
The report included 12 countries whose children are at greatest risk of losing education, namely Niger, Mali, Chad, Liberia, Afghanistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal and Ivory Coast.