The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) launched a campaign to bring students back to school, warning that education suffers from a global crisis due to the covid pandemic.

To call attention to the education emergency and raise awareness about the need for governments to keep schools open, or prioritize them in reopening plans, UNICEF today unveiled ‘Pandemic Classroom,’ a model classroom made up of 168 empty desks, each desk representing the million children living in countries where schools have been almost entirely closed – a solemn reminder of the classrooms in every corner of the world that remain empty.

According to a statement by the UNICEF, schools for more than 168 million children globa...
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