[Assam] [Iepgraduates-list] children out of school - Global Campaign for Education, Action Week 2008

[umesh sharma]

anyone can join -  1 million from Bangladesh joining too - the largest group in this global  campaign.

Umesh

Tanya G harvard.edu> wrote:           st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }           Hello fellow IEPers,
   
  I am currently working on the Global Campaign for Education’s (GCE) Action Week 2008.  The GCE was founded in 1999 and brings together major nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and teachers' unions in more than 150 countries to promote access to education as a basic human right. In early 2003, a U.S. Chapter of the Global Campaign for Education was formed to allow those in the United States to do their part in this global effort to ensure universal quality education for all children.  I invite those of you who are working with or close to teachers and/or classrooms in the US to spread the word about this event.  For those of you who are posted outside the US, please check out the international GCE website to find and participate in Action Week activities in your own country:  (http://www.campaignforeducation.org/action/2008/action_2008_country.html).   
   
  Every year the GCE holds Global Action Week. The Action Week advocates for the 72 million children across the globe currently denied access to primary education and the 226 million more who are denied a quality basic or secondary education. Every year during Action Week, more than one hundred national chapters around the world coordinate to raise awareness about this issue, encourage young people to get involved, and coordinate powerful actions and requests of world leaders. In the past, Angelina Jolie, Kofi Annan and Mia Hamm have headlined Action Week in the US.  
   
  Below is the blurb we are sending out to schools and organizations about getting involved in this year’s Action Week activities.  Even if you don’t work directly with classrooms, it would be great if people could help spread the word by posting to websites or forwarding to email lists.  If you work for an organization that would be interesting in joining the Global Campaign for Education email me and we can work out the details.
   
  Check out the website (www.campaignforeducationusa.org/actionweek) and email if you have any questions.
   
  Thanks, Tanya
  .harvard.edu
   
   
  Blurb:
   
  Global Campaign for Education, Global Action Week 2008 – 5 million young people taking part! 
   
  Every year the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) organizes Global Action Week to raise awareness of the plight of the 72 million children and 226 million young people who are denied a quality basic or secondary education around the world. These children miss out on the chance that an education gives them in life. The U.S. Chapter of the GCE is a broad-based coalition of more than 30 non-profit organizations, teachers unions, foundations and child advocacy groups that promote the cause of universal basic education in the world’s poorest nations. This year the GCE is organizing a global lesson about the need to ensure a quality education for all children – and in doing so, beat the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Simultaneous lesson on April 23rd at 11am EST (10am CST, 9am MST, or 8am PST). This activity will attempt to break the previous Guinness World Record set by the GCE in 2003. It is also an exciting opportunity to advocate for the education of the
 world’s poorest children by connecting with fellow young people worldwide –including 5 million young people planning on taking part in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Pacific and Europe. Projected participants include 100,000 students in the UK, one-quarter of the children in Denmark, and an amazing one million young people in Bangladesh. The US Chapter of GCE would like the US to match this high-level of participation and raise awareness about the importance of the Education For All Act of 2007. Being part of the World’s Biggest Lesson is easy—it will only take 30 minutes. To register for the event, download your lesson plan and other materials, and to learn more about the issue of education for all, please check out the GCE-US website at: www.campaignforeducationusa.org/actionweek! 
   
  
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Umesh Sharma

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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
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Class of 2005

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