Irish Sunday Mirror

Fergie funds bid to school disaster kids

- BY AMY SHARPE

Duchess of York THE Duchess of York is to call for more funding to educate disaster-struck children following a charity trip to Sierra Leone.

Sarah Ferguson will tell Britain’s House of Lords on Tuesday how 75 million youngsters worldwide have been left without schooling.

Fergie, 59, said: “What struck me in Sierra Leone was that every single child or parent I met, no matter the tragedy or the hardship that they had suffered, all shared the same top priority – children wanted to go to school.”

The Duchess, a founding patron of charity Street Child, will open an Education in Emergencie­s discussion highlighti­ng how education in disaster zones receives less than 2% of humanitari­an aid. Prince Philip

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