Leadership Lessons Meet Yasmine Sherif of Education Cannot Wait

Today, I am honoured to interview Yasmine Sherif, who I truly admire for her work in ensuring children in conflict zones are provided with an education. Armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate change induced disasters and protracted crises have disrupted the education of 75 million children and youth globally. And that number is growing in an unprecedented way with the spread of COVID- 19. The ‘pile-on effect’ during the global COVID-19 pandemic, interruptions to education can have long term implications -- especially for the most vulnerable. There is a real risk of regression for children whose basic, foundational learning (reading, math, languages, etc.) was not strong to begin with. And millions of children who have already been deprived of their right to education, particularly girls, are being more exposed to health and well-being risks (both psychosocial and physical) during COVID-19.