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Reading and writing helps us leap from knowing to understanding. In fact, literacy is prioritized as one of the fundamentals of education recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In the following lines, you will find the testimony of a teacher and a group of students from Ecuador, who are back in their classroom, a safe space where they collaboratively boost their literacy skills:

The COVID-19 infodemic has disrupted several routine vaccination campaigns across the world. In Togo, to tackle this challenge, health authorities make significant education and communication efforts to preserve immunization gains and rebuild people's confidence in life-saving vaccines such as the polio vaccine.

Last year, UN teams on the ground reached thousands of people and supported governments on a myriad of objectives. They boosted countries' COVID-19

Our UN teams are on the ground, working with governments and key stakeholders to bolster countries’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, helping ensure a smooth recovery. They tackle a range of multi-faceted priorities and key initiatives on a daily basis—from climate action to gender equality and food security—and utilize innovative approaches to problem-solving to better serve communities. Below are some highlights of their work this month. 

Since March 2020, more than 265,000 Cambodian migrants, including over 116,000 women, have returned home from Thailand due to the COVID-19 pandemic.