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UNICEF launches campaign to promote child education in DR Congo

Xinhua, September 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has launched a door-to-door campaign to promote child education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the agency said in a statement released on Thursday in Kinshasa.

The campaign which was launched just a week after the opening of schools for the 2016-2017 academic year, will identify children who are not in school and come up with social protection measures to keep them in school.

It targets about two million vulnerable children who will be provided with all the necessary resources to remain in school.

Regarding results for similar campaigns in the past, the UN agency said they led to a 10 percent increase in the number of new children joining school during the 2015-2016 academic year.

At the same time, the UNICEF representative in DR Congo, Pascal Villeneuve, urged all actors in DR Congo's education sector to get involved and support the agency's door-to-door campaign for child education. Endit