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The Global Campaign for Education  is an international coalition of nongovernment development and children’s rights organisations and education unions.

In the UK the Campaign works to increase community awareness of the state of education internationally and generate the political will necessary to ensure the UK plays an active and effective part in efforts to secure education for all.

 

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Read's Big Book Share supports prisoners choose a book and then make a recording of themselves reading it, which is then given to the prisoner’s children. Reading can help to keep the family bond strong and can help an imprisoned parent to be a positive role model to his or her children.

 

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Feb032009

Help get 75 million kids into school

World leaders have promised that all children will have a primary education by 2015 but with only 6 years left to go, there are still 75 million children missing out on an education completely. One in nine of the world’s children currently do not have the chance to go to school. Girls, disabled children and those living in countries affected by war are most at risk of missing out on education. At the current rate of progress 58 countries have almost no chance of achieving the goal by 2015.

Send my friend to school is the UK part of a worldwide movement, the Global Campaign for Education, which is mobilising kids in the UK to campaign for more and better aid to global education.

DateFebruary 3, 2009 | AuthorJoseph O'Reilly | Comments Off |

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