The Future is Now: Education for Children in Countries Affected by Conflict

This document says that more than half of all children who are out of school in the world today live in conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS) – 39 million children out of a total of 72 million children who are not in school. While there has been an impressive reduction in the overall number of children left out of school since 2006, progress has been much slower in CAFS.

It is possible to get children in CAFS into education – as Save the Children’s Rewrite the Future campaign has demonstrated. But without urgent action to help these hardest-to-reach children, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 2 – that all children get a full course of primary schooling by 2015 – will not be met.