CHILDREN IN CRISIS WANT EDUCATION MORE THAN MONEY, FOOD OR WATER

• Surveys from toughest places on earth reveal top priorities for children in crisis
• School ranks far higher than immediate needs like food, water and shelter
• But education allocated just 2% of funding in humanitarian emergencies
• 262 million children – one in five globally – denied an education

Children overwhelmingly identify education as their top priority at times of crisis, a new report by Save the Children shows today.

Education Against the Odds provides the largest analysis of what children – rather than aid planners – say they need during humanitarian emergencies…………….