“At least 30 million children will still be out of school in 2015 - most of them in poor, conflict-affected countries," says Simon Cowell, Acting Secretary General of the International Save the Children Alliance. 2015 is the target year for education for all and the Millennium Development Goals, a roadmap for ending poverty by 2015.

The Story of the Future, an animated report from Save the Children published today, World Refugee Day, indicates that the current trend of providing education for more than 4 million children a year is not enough to reach the 2015 education target the world set itself in 2000. Although the total number of out-of-school children is declining, those who are still out-of-school are proving ever harder to reach.

More than half of the 77 million children still out of school live in conflict-affected fragile states. However, despite the vulnerability of the children living in these countries, only 23 percent of the global basic education aid goes to these conflict and post-conflict areas.

“Two weeks ago the G8 said they would target assistance to ‘low income countries and fragile states furthest away from the 2015 target’ of education for all. Today on World Refugee Day, we hope that world leaders might be reminded of all the children around the world whose lives have been disrupted by conflict and act now to provide education. For this generation of children growing up without school, making a new promise in 2015 will simply be too late,” says Cowell.

View The Story of the Future