As reported in an article by Misiones Salesianas, Salesian missionaries around the world are at the forefront of education and more than 2.3 million children and young people receive education and find protection and security in one of the almost 4,800 Salesian educational centres, sometimes in difficult situations, such as in armed conflicts or in camps for refugees or displaced persons.
In addition, according to UNESCO data, at least one young person and one adult in seven does not have basic literacy skills and more than 258 million children and young people do not have access to education.
25% of the world's children live in countries affected by some humanitarian crisis, such as Syria, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Haiti, Sudan, Palestine. Schools, in such circumstances, not only perform their function of teaching skills and abilities, but they are also places where children can feel safe, play, interact with other children, share.
The 2030 Development Agenda focuses, in Goal Four, on quality education. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 defines the objectives of education for the coming years: universality, preschool development, skills attainment, equal access, youth literacy, education to care for the planet and sustainable development.
