CelloMom On Cars"At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other #ExtremeWeather, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in a new report Friday.
UNICEF said it amounted to one in seven #school-going #children across the world being kept out of class at some point in 2024 because of #limate hazards."
https://apnews.com/article/climate-weather-children-school-unicef-eb93150ca5c1f79a663f7c6755be3196
Nearly 250 million children missed school last year because of extreme weather, UNICEF says
The United Nations Children's Fund says at least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather. UNICEF says it amounted to one in seven school-going children across the world being kept out of class at some point in 2024 because of climate crises. The new UNICEF report released Friday also outlines how some countries saw hundreds of their schools destroyed, with low-income nations in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa hit especially hard. But while deadly floods and cyclones hit the world in 2024, UNICEF says heatwaves were “the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last year."
