Presenting the United National International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF. Established in 1946, is one of the UN’s founding special organisations and is committed to providing both humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. It focuses on numerous issues plaguing mothers and children like health, nutrition, education, and protection from violence and exploitation.

 

This year’s agenda is “Ensuring Access to Digital Learning Platforms for All Children”. Educational efforts were punctuated by the pressing demands of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past half-decade illuminating the need for developing educational infrastructure, particularly across digital forums. According to UNICEF itself, over 168 million children were deprived of education for an entire year owing to the global quarantine, a glaring obstacle to the progress and development of an entire generation of young minds. Lack of digital infrastructure remains a critical issue as numerous least-developed countries (LDCs) and developing countries lack the resources to support education solely through digital mediums.

 

Amplified by environmental, political and economic crises, the 21st century calls for the provision of such mediums to all children regardless of destitution or deprivation. The UNICEF exists to alleviate this dire necessity by taking significant and urgent steps towards the inception and distribution of the platforms mentioned above. The roads that lead to the creation of a world that is pillared by the success and breakthrough of technology it is beyond critical that the decisions made by today’s world leaders are made with the cognizance of the status quo and the hope for the future. In conclusion, addressing the agenda is a mammoth task and requires a coordinated international effort engaging with both economic and social barriers along the way, however, its immediate demand is overpowering.