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A girl holds Taboush, a cat travelling with a migrant family from war-torn Syria to Europe, in front of a tent in a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni on March 21, 2016. Greece will not be able to start sending refugees back to Turkey from March 20, 2016, the government said, as the country struggles to implement a key deal aimed at easing Europe's migrant crisis. The numbers are daunting: officials said as of Saturday there were 47,500 migrants in Greece, including 8

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Women walk in Ganyiel village on Panyijar County of Unity State on March 20, 2015, carrying food items home distributed to them by the World Food Program (WFP) as humanitarian aid.

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USAID will launch a Humanitarian Grand Challenge for Development in early 2018

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Read the 2017 Acting on the Call report and learn how a focus on health systems can save 5.6 million children and 260,000 women by 2020.

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What Does ‘Back to School’ Mean for Children in Crisis and Conflict?

August 23, 2017 -- Nina Papadopoulos and Meghan Mattern

While teachers, students and parents prepare for “Back to School,” some 80 million children around the world are out of school because of crisis and conflict. USAID is committed to providing children and youth—including the most vulnerable—access to an education.

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Last updated: September 25, 2017