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Youth representatives (L-R) Stephen Gichohi, Hibist Kassa, and Kashif Khan, spoke with Amy Costello from the UN Radio studios in Geneva.

By Pi James

NEW YORK, USA, 1 December 2010 – In efforts to address and prevent the often overlooked global youth population falling through programming, policy and funding cracks, the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), in collaboration with the IASC Education Cluster, held a Policy Roundtable on “An Enabling Right: Education for Youth Affected by Crisis” in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this month.

Nine-year-old Marie Yolene Milord speaks with a Haitian volunteer at a field hospital at the MINUSTAH
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“I don’t know how, perhaps in tents or the open-air…but even in wartime, schools must function…For the mental health of the population, the children and students need to go back to normal life. They will have hot meals and psychological treatment at schools.” -Joel Jean-Pierre, Minister of Education, Haiti

The following are links highlighting education response and information on the crisis in Haiti.