Stourbridge MP, Lynda Waltho on April 26, 2007 Joined Up to the Global Campaign for Education, the world’s largest children’s campaign to demand that the 80 million children who are currently out of school are no longer denied their right to an education.
Lynda said “There are currently millions of children around the world who are not able to go to school, something that we take for granted in the UK. World Governments have already promised to provide free primary education to all children by 2015 but we must all keep the pressure on and remind them of this promise. It would be great to see Stourbridge children getting involved in this campaign”.
Thousands of children up and down the country are Joining Up and forming chains to demand that world leaders take action on education. In the past few years over 8000 UK schools have taken part in the campaign to get every child into school. Creating over five million ‘buddies’, they have continuously lobbied world leaders to keep their promises on education.
2007 marks the half-way point to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’S), the promises which governments made to tackle poverty by 2015. The education goal of all children completing a primary school education has a real chance of success if urgent action is taken.
Lucia Fry, Global Campaign for Education says, “£3.3bn ($6.3bn) is still needed each year if world governments are to collectively honour their promise of providing free universal primary education for all by 2015. Urgency is of the utmost importance as the increase in education aid must be made in the next two years or millions of children, often the most vulnerable will continue to be denied the most basic of human rights”.
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Notes to editors
- GCE coalition members include; ActionAid, ATL, Book Aid, Comic Relief, Education Action, EIS, IDCS, LCD, NASUWT, NUT, Oxfam, Plan, Save the Children, SSTA, Sightsavers International, UTU, VSO, World Vision
