 Although the organization has suffered from extreme under funding, UNICEF is still trying to bring emergency safe education to the local children.In North Kivu alone, UNICEF has identified 258 schools which have been looted and/or burnt following attacks and following their occupation by armed groups, imperiling the start of the school year in September for 60,000 children.Despite global recognition of the importance of education in emergencies, education still remains greatly underfunded.