Joy Tiku Enighe |
I am joined in this
call to action by over 500 other young advocates for global education.
Together, we make up the Global Youth Ambassadors group - launched in 2013 by
the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon and the United Nations
Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown.
Shazia and Kainat
are two of my fellow Ambassadors. Along with Malala Yousafzai, they were shot
by the Taliban for going to school in Pakistan just over a year ago. Their
story and that of so many other of the youth advocates I have joined forces
with as well as the story of the abducted Chibok school girls by insurgents,
inspires me to stand up for the millions of children that are kept out of
school because of poverty, early marriage, insurgency, fear, molestation,
violence, stigmatization, child labor and different forms of discrimination.
As firm believers
that education is the answer to the greatest challenges we face as a society,
we ask for your help in urging leaders to raise budgets for education, build
well equipped schools, train teachers, improve learning for all children,
adequate security and free primary education for all.
It has been shown
that we could lift more than 170 million people out of poverty simply by
teaching every child in low-income countries basic reading and writing skills.
So why are we not
making this a reality?
Unless we revert
current trends, we will not even achieve universal primary education before
2086.
So join A World at
School in our campaign to get every child into school and learning by signing
up for our regular e-mail updates at www.aworldatschool.org.
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action. Also, follow us on twitter (@aworldatschool) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/AWorldAtSchool). Thank you.
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors to windows”.
Joy Tiku Enighe
A World at School Global Youth Ambassador
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