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Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser has been unveiled as one of the world’s prominent females who have joined a global advocacy effort to save lives and protect livelihoods in response to the global threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Convened by UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, Rise for All brings together women leaders to mobilise support for the UN roadmap to tackle the development emergency, as laid out in the United Nations Framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19: Shared responsibility, global solidarity and urgent action for people in need.
Addressing the issue via her personal Instagram account, Her Highness said: “I am rising in solidarity with other global leaders, because I can see the long-term consequences of this human crisis. While the whole world rushes to fight the spread of the coronavirus, the viruses of ignorance and despair continue to slowly, but steadily, grow on the sidelines of our lives. Scientists and researchers will most likely succeed in finding the vaccine to COVID-19 – eventually, we will prevail and the vaccine will retreat. However, our decades of experience have taught us that ignorance and despair are much harder to defeat.
“Let’s be honest, we were not living in a perfect, peaceful world before COVID-19. Our world was already contending with other pandemics. They are called poverty, hunger, unemployment, illiteracy, war and conflict. COVID-19 is exacerbating these current predicaments exponentially. You cannot turn a blind eye from the long-term consequences that will likely imprint our children and youth. More than 9
“So, if we don’t intervene, the effects of this crisis will have disastrous education and economic effects on our young people. We will be leading them down a dangerous path of hopelessness, and possibly extremism. We cannot let this ticking time bomb go off.
“And, we are living in a digital world. At Education Above All and Silatech we are reaching children and youth using online solutions to keep them connected to education resources and employment opportunities. This will help prevent the interruption of learning and the exclusion of young people from the workforce. Let’s not waste this moment in time to merely react to combat COVID-19. Let’s be proactive and think long-term. Instead of working from fear, we must take this opportunity to narrow the digital gap and bring innovative solutions to our children and youth. It’s only when every human being is connected will our digital world be able to preserve our humanity.”
Source: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_fgrnAgJTY/