The World Vision charity is fully behind the ‘1GOAL: Education for All’ campaign, which is calling on all the world leaders to help provide education to all 72 million children worldwide by 2015, no matter what country they live in. 1GOAL is using the power of football to ensure that every child has the right to receive an education especially now with 2010 FIFA World Cup being held in Africa.
World leaders made an eight point Millennium Development Goal pledge in 2000 to help all children across the globe, which included the end of poverty through education by 2015. Thanks to the abolition of school fees in many countries, an extra 33 million children are now going to school. Yet the goal to ensure that all children complete primary schooling by this date is looking a long way off without increased action.
The World Vision childrens charity is supporting the campaign with the Global Campaign for Education. This group is features a coalition of teachers’ unions and development agencies around the world who have united to try and achieve their goal for universal education for all. Footballers, such as Alan Shearer, along with fans and FIFA are fully behind the 1GOAL campaign, alongside many other education groups, charities and campaigners.
World Vision’s Senior Child Rights Policy Advisor, Philippa Lei, said –
Education is key to transforming lives. Not only does it open up economic opportunity and contribute to poverty reduction, it literally does save lives. Children of mothers who receive an education are twice as likely to live beyond age five.
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