'Combat for education': ECW empowers children ravaged by war to learn, heal, become 'future leaders'
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FRANCE 24's Mark Owen is joined by Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. Leading the "combat for education" for the past several decades across the world, in war-torn countries, and unstable regions experiencing conflict and insurgencies, her modus operandi is simple: "Abnormal problems require extraordinary solutions". On ECW's official website, she is introduced to us as "A lawyer specialized in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (LL.M), she has over 30 years of experience with the United Nations and international NGOs. Ms. Sherif has served in some of the most crisis-affected areas of the world, including Afghanistan and the Middle East, the Balkans, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan." To learn more about her extraordinary work, educating and empowering children who were ripped away from their homes, deprived of a childhood and stripped away of their innocence, we invite you to go to their website: https://www.educationcannotwait.org/yasmine-sherif