WHAT’S THE ISSUE?
On June 26, world leaders came together for the Global Partnership for Education’s Replenishment Conference. The Conference provided an opportunity for leaders to make pledges to support access to education for 29 million kids around the world by seeking replenishment funds of $3.5 billion through 2018.
On the same day, 15,000 people gathered together at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD for Thank You Festival co-presented by Global Citizen and World Childhood Foundation. Thank You Festival was an opportunity to say THANK YOU to the families, communities, faith-based organizations, charities, and governments who are helping children survive and thrive, and together calling for an end to preventable child deaths and for sustained US public funding for all poverty focused development programs.
HOW DID GLOBAL CITIZENS RESPOND?
Working closely with leading advocacy partners like RESULTS, Plan, and Global Campaign for Education, Global Poverty Project committed to building support for the Global Partnership for Education. As a result, global citizens worldwide took 142k actions supporting child survival and protection, including 28,361 global citizens signing the petition supporting Global Partnership for Education (GPE).
In the UK, we also launched #BecauseOfSchool as an online and offline action that bridged the gap between stories of receiving a good education in higher income countries and the ambitions of going to school in poorer countries.
GPE loved the concept, adopting #BecauseOfSchool as their own campaign, along with more than 200 other NGOs across the world! By working as a single collaborative platform, #BecauseofSchool generated 41 million online impressions. Specifically, global citizens sent 2284 tweets supporting GPE to Raj Shah, Administrator of USAID. Similarly, in Australia 15 ambassadors took the #BetterSchoolsCampaigns offline to raise public awareness about the GPE.
WHAT’S THE IMPACT?
At the Global Partnership for Education’s replenishment conference on June 26th in Brussels, the world came together to make their commitments to the efforts towards universal education. In total, GPE raised an inspirational $28.5bn towards the replenishment, of which $26bn came from co-financing from beneficiary countries. Global citizens’ actions brought pressure down on a number of donor countries, whose pledging that day is set to affect the lives of more than 6 million children by 2018.
The U.S. made a historic $40m commitment to GPE at the Replenishment Conference. This is double what the U.S. gave last year! Later, at Thank You Festival, Raj Shah, Administrator of USAID, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our CEO Hugh Evans and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, committed to work with Congress to enable a further $50m commitment to GPE in 2015. These commitments came after 81 Members of Congress signed the Dear Colleague letter supporting GPE.
Our own Global Citizen campaign also conducted 19 petition handovers to the officers of leaders in the United States Government.
Despite Global Poverty Project’s best efforts, Australia only committed $140 million over four years. This represented a cut of almost 50 per cent against their previous commitment. The cut occurred in a broader budgetary environment where over $15 billion in cuts have been made to Australia’s foreign aid budget. Australia’s GPE pledge highlights the importance of ensuring the Australian foreign aid budget is returned to a growth trajectory with an end goal of being 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income.
The hard work of global citizens also helped secure a pledge from the UK of £300 million over 4 years! That’s a 50% increase on their last pledge and a huge step towards giving 29 million more children the chance to take their first steps into a classroom and a world of possibilities.
As a result of the impact of global citizens’ actions around the world, GPE’s Charles Tapp said, "Thank you, global citizens! You are truly amazing. Your tireless efforts have had a really big impact on securing big pledges from the UK and USA and keeping Australia in the game. Canada still to pledge so lots to do there. Let there be no misunderstanding: your advocacy efforts have real impact, not just on governments to provide funding, but on helping us get more kids into school and changing their lives."
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Global Poverty Project will continue to work with Congress and USAID to build momentum for Global Partnership for Education. As we announced on stage at the Brussels replenishment
we will utilize the power of our key events including the Global Citizen Festival – our 60,000-person flagship event with more than 3 billion media impressions – to shine the international spotlight on the global learning crisis. We’ll use the power of Global Citizen to mobilize 50,000 actions, including emails, phone calls and petitions to key government decision-makers.
We’ll also routinely produce original online content - as well as generating 25 million print, TV and online media impressions globally - that communicates education results and progress around GPE. Finally, we’re setting out to have at least 50 meetings with GPE donor and partner government representatives to hold them account.
As we look towards Global Citizen Festival on 27 September 2014 in Central Park, New York, we’re building up our campaigning around GPE in Canada, whose government has yet to make their pledge. We’ve already started an email action targeting Christian Paradis, the Canadian Minister for International Development and we know that the Canadian government is listening to you all, so we have every reason to demonstrate the power of the Global Citizen movement to accomplish a further exciting announcement later this year.
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Millions of children and adults around the world lack the access to education for various reasons — some live in conflict zones, others aren’t allowed to attend school because they’re girls, or they don’t attend because their families need them to work and bring in income to support the family. But because education promotes the understanding of social justice, interdependence, and identity, it is key to eradicating global poverty by 2030. Here are nine facts you need to know about global education.
Around the world 59 million children of primary school age are being denied an education, and almost 65 million adolescents are without access to a secondary school.
Conflict and natural disasters have disrupted the education of 75 million children.In one of three countries, less than three quarters of teachers are trained to national standards, resulting in 130 million children enrolled in school who are not even learning the basics.
A child whose mother can read is 50 percent more likely to survive past the age of 5.
Nearly 15 million girls of primary school age will never have the opportunity to learn to read and write in primary school, compared to about 10 million boys.
It would take $39 billion (USD) every year to send all adolescents to school.In 2012, there were 168 million child labor workers aged 5 to 17. This is one reason many children cannot attend school.
Over 40 years, equitable access to quality education can help a country raise its gross domestic product per capital by 23 percent.
If all women had a primary education, there would be 1.7 million fewer malnourished children.
Over six months after Malala Yousafzai called on Canada to put more funding towards the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the Canadian government decided to double its contribution.
Canada will commit 120 million dollars to GPE, which is an international organization made up of governments, non-profits, companies and other organizations dedicated to ending educational inequalities around the world. They’ve already allocated $4.3 billion to reforming education over the last ten years, and Canada’s recent announcement is a huge step towards bringing children in developing countries the educational opportunities that everyone deserves.This news of Canada’s commitment is incredible, but not sudden. Malala made this powerful call to action at last year’s Global Citizen Festival, specifically asking Canada to take the reigns:
It took many months of negotiation and deliberation within the GPE and the Canadian government for this announcement to come through. Commitments like this are no simple feat, and even with the huge push from global citizens last September, it took a lot of time and effort in the aftermath to make Malala’s call for action a reality.
The payoff is amazing, and global citizens should be proud that their voices helped turn an idea into a solid commitment. From celebrities to concert attendees, to those acting online, everyone who showed their support for this was important in making it happen.
In addition to doubling funding towards GPE, Canada has also committed 10 million dollars for UNICEF to support the education of children in crises. In states of conflict, violence and disaster, it’s often difficult for children to get to school, let alone achieve academic success. By allocating money to children in fragile contexts specifically, Canada is taking a crucial step for global education in the parts of the world that are hardest to reach.
Even with these developments, there is still more to be done in order to fully close the education gaps that persist. In order for children to explore and reach their potential, education needs to be prioritized globally by governments, organizations and even companies. Universal access to education means people everywhere can lead healthier lives, full of greater opportunities. In this critical year for development, global citizens need to unlock their power to achieve this goal.
Malala agrees. She applauded Canada’s actions, but recognizes the work that remains. Now, she “calls on other governments to consider how they can support more young people to get the education they hope for and deserve. More commitments and contributions are needed if we are to realize a world where all young people - including girls who often miss out the most - are able to access 12 years of quality education for free.”
Right now, 31 million girls around the world don’t have access to primary education. Here are the top reasons why getting girls into school is so important:
3. Educating girls improves a country’s social and economic well-beingEducating girls has benefits not just for themselves but also for their communities and countries. With a quality education, girls can make informed choices, improving their country’s social and economic well-being.
In fact, there is a lot of evidence that countries with less gender disparity in schools are more likely to have higher economic growth. Some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls at the same level as boys!
2. Educated women are more likely to invest in the next generationEducated women understand the value of schooling and place a high priority on providing education and better health care to their children. UNICEF reports that girls’ education literally saves millions of lives!
1. Sending a girl to school can unleash her potentialProviding a girl with one extra year of education beyond the average boosts her future wages by 20%. This has huge implications for girls in the developing world!
In 2000, world leaders promised every child free primary education by 2015. The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) brings partners together to tackle education challenges in the world’s poorest countries. GPE has helped to put over 10 million girls in school!
Around the world, 57 million primary school-aged children are not in school. The majority of these children are girls, the very poor, and children in areas of conflict. In addition, many more children who are in school are failing to acquire even basic reading, writing, and math skills. We may think that access to a quality education system is only a problem in developing countries. However, upon hearing that the Everett School District failed to approve their bond issue, it makes one stop and reflect on the fact that we all are responsible for our children’s education, not just our local, state and national governments. We, as inpiduals privileged to live in the United States, decide what is important, and we show this by voting for our priorities.
As the Everett School District begins to inquire about why this bond for new construction projects and upgrades did not pass, similar actions are being taken by communities in developing countries to ensure that all children have the resources they need for academic success.
The good news is the world has made steady progress toward universal education since 1999, when 108 million children were out of school. Unfortunately, this effort has stalled, with the poorest, mostly rural and children in areas of conflict, still difficult to reach. Unless more effective policies are implemented, and there is greater international financial support, the numbers of children out of school will start to increase. This lack of recent progress is due in part to donor nations reducing financial support.
All children deserve the right to an education, whether they live in Everett or Ethiopia. Education strengthens families, communities, and countries by reducing poverty, increasing incomes, fighting HIV/AIDS, saving the lives of mothers, and more.Enter the bi-partisan Education for All Act introduced in the House by Washington Rep. Dave Reichert and Nita Lowey of New York. A thank you to Reps. Suzan DelBene and Rick Larsen for responding to constituents in Snohomish County and co-sponsoring this legislation. The Education for All Act seeks to ensure that the United States join with other nations, providing resources and leadership necessary for a successful international effort to provide all children a quality basic education.
To achieve this goal, the Education for All Act creates an efficient U.S. policy that includes working with other countries, international organizations, and civil society to assist developing countries and strengthen their educational systems. According to the United Nations, developing countries pay almost 90 percent of the cost of education in their countries. Education for All’s sustainable plan promotes education as the foundation for community development.
One successful international organization that the Education for All Act supports is the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Housed at the World Bank, the GPE works directly with developing country governments to create and fund national education plans. This process has increased the number of children in school, as well as the number of children completing school.
This coming June, when we will be wrapping up our school year here, our country will be part of the Global Partnership for Education replenishment conference. This is a time in which countries and other donors from around the world show their commitment to education for all children.
In 2011, America made a first pledge of $20 million to the GPE. Other countries have pledged 10 to 20 times that. This year America can make a pledge that shows true leadership, helping insure other countries will pledge in a way that will address the needs of all children. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the benefits of education include reduction of infant mortality, fewer deaths of children under age 5, less malnutrition, increasing inpidual earning power and lifting people out of poverty. With education for all children, communities begin to flourish, bringing peace and prosperity. Without education for all, we will continue to pay consequences in the areas of health, security, development and human rights.
As the Everett School District begins to examine how they can accommodate the overcrowding that will inevitably happen in their schools without a boost in funding, the call for advocating for comprehensive and effective educational systems throughout the world is stronger than ever. Hopefully our local and global communities will see that we must invest in our children’s education from preschool to secondary. The more we understand why our community is investing in our children, the more important education becomes.
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Global access to education is the the key to eradicating extreme poverty. As Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Around the world 59 million children of primary school age are being denied an education, and nearly 65 million adolescents are without access to a secondary school. Whether it’s lack of funding, no classroom available, or simply being female, there are many reasons these people lack the access to quality educations.
Malala FundThe Malala Fund, co-founded by Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai, works to enable girls around the world to receive a quality education to achieve their potential and become positive change-makers in their communities. The Malala Fund is making the futures of young girls brighter by investing in them and providing resources for improved education.
Pencils of PromisePencils of Promise is an organization working to improve the educational opportunities of children living in Ghana, Guatemala, Laos, and Nicaragua. In order to do this, PoP collects monetary donations to build schools and offer educational programming. This includes teacher support to ensure teachers are trained and students learn effectively, water and health programs to keep kids healthy in school, and scholarships to help students bear the financial burden.
Change HeroesChange Heroes seeks to create change through peer-to-peer fundraising. The money raised goes toward building schools in developing countries around the world. The average cost to build a school is about $10,000 (USD). Change Heroes allows people to create their own campaign videos to send around to 33 of their friends asking for a donation of $3.33 (USD) per day for three months. This adds up to $10,000 — enough to build a school.
CARECARE places emphasis on girls’ education by helping young girls overcome barriers, such as child marriage, affording uniforms, workloads, and gender inequality. Working in countries around the world, their mission is to improve access to education for girls, and all youth, everywhere.
Teach for AmericaIn the US, there are 16 million children living in poverty. Only half of children living in poverty will graduate from high school, and only one in 10 will graduate from college. Teach for America strives to combat these numbers by enlisting, developing and mobilizing as many teachers around the country to provide quality educations.
Educators 4 ExcellenceEducators 4 Excellence is a group of teachers who are passionate about the success of their students. Teachers in this organization are actively involved in policy-making and decisions that will affect their students and the profession, ultimately providing the best education they can for students.
Book Aid InternationalBook Aid International increases access to books for children to support literacy, education and development in sub-Saharan Africa. In many parts of Africa, people are unable to fulfil their potential due to lack of books and educational resources. Book Aid International supports libraries and educational initiatives in Africa to improve literacy among children.
Matida, the eldest of her siblings, at 13 has had to sacrifice most of her childhood. Unable to afford school, she spends her days doing chores and cooking for her family. Her family is one of the poorest in her Darfur village, and the war has only made it worse. Though she longed to go to school, Matida assumed that education would never be an option for her and her siblings, as they would likely never be able to afford the fees, clothing and other basic necessities required to go to school.
One evening, all of that changed.
Matida was on her way home after collecting water from the well when she saw boys and girls her age coming out of classrooms holding books and chatting animatedly. She knew some of them, so asked how they could afford to go to school. “Because it’s free,” they told her, “It’s a War Child school.” Not only were lessons free, but the textbooks, notebooks and other supplies were too. She was very excited for herself and her siblings. The next day, she enrolled at the school.
Now, a year later, she is reading, writing and learning numbers. “I believe education is the key of life,” she told us. She says that she is going to be a teacher so she can help other poor children like her to have a better and more peaceful life. She says she will always be grateful for this opportunity and wants to pass the gift on.
The UN announced at the start of this summer that the last time the world saw a refugee crisis of this level was during World War II. So why, amid wars, terrorism, and natural disasters, are we worried about children attending school?
With the refugee crisis hitting unprecedented levels, the educational needs of children and youth are often the last consideration — an afterthought following water, food, and shelter.
11 Facts you should know about the Refugee CrisisEducation currently receives less than 2% of humanitarian aid. Which is a catastrophic oversight for the 75 million children and youth currently missing out on an education — over half of whom are girls. Educating these children is the first step toward lifting them out of trauma and helping them to rebuild their future and their communities.With a problem so vast, everyone has to play their part to help fix it. That includes corporations. Which is why Global Citizen targeted companies to get involved in however they can. With the help of 23,738 emails from Global Citizens, three companies committed to individual commitments at the Global Citizen Festival that totalled more than $4.5 million. A sum that is collectively set to affect the lives of 150,000 refugees in the coming year.
HP equips refugees with tools and training to better 100,000 lives
Seeking financial resources makes most obvious sense from a sector that turns over trillions of dollars in profit every year. Yet, perhaps even more importantly, they possess the tools and expertise that could play a vital role in tackling the issues around poverty. Microsoft and HP’s recent commitments in support of refugees are a perfect example of this in action.
At the Global Citizen Festival 2016, HP committed more than $1 million in technology and training support to help refugees, alleviate poverty, and improve the lives of over 100,000 people in the coming year.
Microsoft concocts a five-step plan to connect, create and educate
A five-step holistic plan announced at the Global Citizen Festival revealed the software company is helping out in the way they know best, in order to provide access to technology, employment and even mental health service for the world’s 65 million refugees. Microsoft committed to:
—Deliver counseling and psychosocial support for 10,000 refugees and migrants in partnership with Mercy Corps.—Provide free Skype translator support for partner relief organizations.—Provide digital literacy and computer science for 60,000 young refugees via Youthspark, the arabic to german language training program.—Fund 20,000 refugees to complete Imagine Academy Training, a globally recognised technology certification, in partnership with Pearson.—Create an innovation hub in a crisis affected area to provide local refugees with networking, technology and entrepreneurial skills training to access and pursue jobs in technology.
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Recently, I found myself browsing through a bookstore searching for a child’s book to give a newborn baby girl for whom I hope to be a role model. It felt like a lot of pressure, imagining this book could shape and form key development for her.
Maybe I took this task too seriously. Searching through titles from some classics like, “Everyone Poops” to “Goodnight Moon” I ended up picking out a new book about a fierce warrior princess who learns to love a pony that wasn’t as strong and brave as she hoped. The book, “The Princess and Her Pony,” was filled with colorful depictions of characters big and small with a range of skintones, and personalities (as many as you get in 20 pages) and ended with a heartfelt moral about accepting others. I began to wonder, how many books out there portray people to be as diverse as the world really is?
Turns out, there are a good amount. Here is a list of books for kids to read to learn about the beauty of diversity that exists throughout the world.
In this book, a boy travels the world meeting other children from various countries across the globe. A spark for international travel and the importance of engaging with multiple cultures to learn languages outside your own, this book is great for early expansion of culture. The book covers how to say yes, and no in Spanish, Arabic, Inuktitut, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Swahili other languages with a song at the end!
“Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters” written and illustrated by John SteptoeWhile this story is not exactly one for gender equality, it’s filled with beautiful illustrations which capture native flora and fauna of Zimbabwe. The story tells the tale of Mufaro (meaning happy man), and his three daughters — Mayara (ashamed), Nyasha (mercy), and Nyoka (snake). The story follows a Cinderella plotline where two sisters mistreat the kind Nyasha. The story was collected from people living near surrounding ancient ruins in Zimbabwe, and the illustrations are worth it! It’s especially refreshing to see a “classic Cinderella” plotline told through the cultural lense of African folklore.
“The Breadwinner” by Deborah Ellis (Young Adult)Deborah Ellis’ most well-known novel for children, “The Breadwinner,” introduces readers to Parvana — a girl growing up under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Her father attended university outside Afghanistan, and was threatened by the Taliban for receiving a foreign education. The threats from the Taliban became incrementally worse, rising to the point where he could not earn an income for their family. So his daughter became “the breadwinner.” Parvana, at age 11, dresses as a boy risking everything to help their family survive. Ellis spent months interviewing female refugees before publishing the critically acclaimed novel in 2000.
“Anansi the Spider” by Gerald McDermottAnansi is a traditional Ashanti tale about a spider who sets out on an adventure, encountering dangerous animals along the river he travels. Through the help of his seven sons, Anansi completes his journey, yet is faced with the decision of choosing one son to reward. Nyame, the God of All Things, helps out the spider in a story with rich illustrations of African motifs and design and weavings of Ashanti language. Fun fact: Though Anansi is a male spider — Ashanti culture is a matriarchal society; land rights, property and titles all would’ve passed down the mama spider’s side of the family.
“The Legend of the Bluebonnet” by Tomie dePaola“The Legend of the Bluebonnet” is the story of the Comanche tribe facing famine and drought, but, really, it’s the story of an orphaned girl named She-Who-Is-Alone, her treasured doll, and an incredible feat of selflessness. This beautifully illustrated book is based on the Comanche origin story of the bluebonnet flower — the state flower of Texas. dePaola extensively researched Comanche customs and traditions in order to faithfully bring this legend to life.
“Mama, Do You Love Me?” By Barbara M. JoosseYoung children will recognize themselves in this book’s mischievous main character — a little girl only referred to as “Dear One.” The first line of the book is the same as its title: “Mama, do you love me?” The answer is, of course, yes. Which prompts the little girl to test the limit of that love, with every response, she imagines an even worse scenario, and repeats the question, only to find that a mother’s love is truly unconditional. Using gorgeous illustrations of Inuit culture and Alaska, Joosse explores a universal theme.
“Everyone Poops” by Taro GomiWhat better way to teach kids everyone is equal than talking about poop? “Everyone Poops” covers the basics of digestion, and how all living creatures from elephants to ants do it. This book can also be a gateway to talking to children about proper WASH ethics.
“Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind” by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Young Adult)Shabanu is 12-year-old girl living in Pakistan’s Cholistan Desert. As the second daughter in a family who has no sons, she’s been allowed to do many things most other Pakistani girls cannot. She and her sister are betrothed to two brothers, but when her sister’s intended is vengefully murdered, Shabanu is married off to the murderer’s brother. She, a child bride, becomes the fourth wife of an old man and must choose between protecting her family and her own freedom.
“Esperanza Rising” by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Young Adult)This young adult novel is about a girl, Esperanza Ortega, growing up in Mexico after her father is killed by group of men. The murder was probably at the hands of his step brother, who also has a vested interest in marrying Esperanza. Think Macbeth but Mexican culture during the Great Depression Era and with a strong female protagonists who stands up to child marriage.
“The Jataka Tales”This book is taken from the Buddhist canon, and was written originally in Sanskrit. It’s now available in multiple languages, including English. The book contains stories about humans and animals but with morals to learn at the end. An Eastern parallel to “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” We highly recommend the English language comic-book versions.
“Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?” by Dr. SeussWhile we strive to end poverty and make the world a more equal place for all. Dr. Seuss’ tale about people less fortunate than “Ducky” creatively explores a myriad of problems others face throughout the world. A message on optimism from Dr. Seuss, this book is a reminder we all face different challenges.
There are many other books to explore all the world’s people, places and everything in between out there. What are some of your favorites?
Most colleges and universities today recognize the value of diversity, both in the academic environment and also as it carries over to the workplace. Academic diversity programs are geared towards incorporating varying intellectual, ethnic, cultural, and social elements to the student environment, encouraging different voices, thoughts, ideas, and opinions while keeping students and teachers connected to the real world. Many initiatives have expanded geographically to include international student exchanges, providing students with a global view of diversity and an enriching cultural experience abroad.
There are several national organizations, as well as specific programs in colleges and universities, dedicated to helping minority students participate in International educational programs.
Over 2,300 scholarships of up to $5,000 will be awarded this academic year for U.S. citizen undergraduates to study abroad. Award amounts will vary depending on the length of study and student need with the average award being approximately $4,000.