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Ministers of Education and high-level representatives from 16 countries gathered in Doha today at the Second Educate A Child High-Level Ministerial Meeting.

The partnership is focused on enrolling over 28,000 children in primary school in two districts within Ethiopia’s southern Bale Zone; Dello Mena and Meda Welabu.

EAC to host a strategic meeting to engage priority countries that do not yet have an EAC co-funded programme.

Educate A Child Director, Mary Joy Pigozzi was invited to take part in a panel discussion at the recent Global Education & Skills Forum, 2014, in Dubai.

Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali each have approximately 1 million out of school children (OOSC), with children from each of these countries facing many of the same barriers in accessing education, including conflict and emergencies, poverty, and socio-cultural beliefs and practices.

Education Above All foundation held a reception for economic, NGO and multilateral leaders on the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos on 22 January.

EAA signed a number of memoranda of understanding and strategic, advocacy and implementation agreements.

Educate A Child (EAC) and its partners are on track to bring more than two million out of school children into education programmes a year on from its launch, and plan to reach ten million more by the end of the 2015 school year.

Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Founder and Chairperson of the Education Above All Foundation, today visited two schools in the Rocinha district of Rio de Janeiro, which is the largest favela - or shantytown - in Brazil.

Educate A Child announced today that it has recently helped UNICEF to keep in school a quarter of a million Syrian children affected by the conflict and is exploring programmes in new priority countries.

Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser will announce on Monday that her Educate A Child initiative, launched just six months ago to help give millions of children their birthright of a basic education, has already helped 600,000 receive quality schooling in some of the world’s most challenging areas.

Her Highnesss Sheikha Moza bint Nasser met with finance and education ministers from eight countries in a major push to break down barriers and accelerate progress towards global education targets.