Extreme weather forced nearly 250 million children to miss school last year: UNICEF

Extreme weather forced nearly 250 million children to miss school last year: UNICEF

[Deccan Chronicle] - 01/25/2025

Cape Town: At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves , cyclones , flooding and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children's Fund said in a new report Friday. UNICEF said it amounted to one in seven school-going children (…)



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