Aisha is one of millions of children facing immense challenges to accessing a safe, inclusive, quality education in Nigeria.

According to a recent ECW study, 72 million of the crisis-impacted children in the world are out of school. Approximately half of all out-of-school children in emergencies are concentrated in only eight countries – Nigeria, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar and Mali.

Violence of the Boko Haram insurgency and other armed groups has disrupted the education of nearly 2 million school-age children in North-East Nigeria. Attacks against schools and other grave violations of children’s rights are regularly registered in the region. Thousands of children and youth – in particular girls and young women – have been abducted. Many girls have been enslaved and sexually exploited and boys have been forced to become child soldiers.

ECW and implementing partners in the country are working to protect children and adolescents impacted by ongoing violence and reintegrate them back into formal learning environments.

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