As a newly appointed Global Youth Ambassador for A World at School, I want to bring attention to the 57 million children around the world currently being denied their human right to an education.
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. You’ll be the first to hear about the latest global education news and calls to action. Also, follow us on twitter (@aworldatschool) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/AWorldAtSchool).
I conclude with this quote “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors to windows”.
Thank you.
Joy Tiku Enighe
0809822970
joytiku@gmail.com
A World at School Global Youth Ambassador
