1/ 400m children globally cannot read by age 11.
70% of 10 and 11-year olds aren’t learning basic arithmetic and language skills.
Total world aid only amounts to $15 a year for an African girl - barely enough for a textbook. But there is hope.
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70% of 10 and 11-year olds aren’t learning basic arithmetic and language skills.
Total world aid only amounts to $15 a year for an African girl - barely enough for a textbook. But there is hope.
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I just returned from the @UN @TransformingEdu summit where children demanded a new deal on education.
From @GirlsNotBrides fighting against child marriage to @kNOwChildLabour, striving to keep kids in class, to Afghan girls bravely standing up to the Taliban.
#LetMeLearn
I just returned from the @UN @TransformingEdu summit where children demanded a new deal on education.
From @GirlsNotBrides fighting against child marriage to @kNOwChildLabour, striving to keep kids in class, to Afghan girls bravely standing up to the Taliban.
#LetMeLearn
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Those boys and girls were right to take us to task.
260m of the world’s children are without a school place.
800m will leave school without necessary qualifications.
The pandemic, war, floods, famine and drought have made things so much worse.
Those boys and girls were right to take us to task.
260m of the world’s children are without a school place.
800m will leave school without necessary qualifications.
The pandemic, war, floods, famine and drought have made things so much worse.
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Can it be right that $50 is spent on an African child’s education while 150 times as much is spent on a child in the West?
That’s why I and 150 former global leaders joined young people at the @UN to demand an increase on aid and domestic spending on education.
Can it be right that $50 is spent on an African child’s education while 150 times as much is spent on a child in the West?
That’s why I and 150 former global leaders joined young people at the @UN to demand an increase on aid and domestic spending on education.
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It would partly be achieved by increasing World Bank funding for low-income countries, up to $6bn from $3bn.
But the real innovation is a new international finance facility allowing development banks to borrow to quickly raise $10-30 billion.
iff-education.org
It would partly be achieved by increasing World Bank funding for low-income countries, up to $6bn from $3bn.
But the real innovation is a new international finance facility allowing development banks to borrow to quickly raise $10-30 billion.
iff-education.org
This is an investment worth making. Talents, once realised at school, cannot be unlearned. We need to make sure we have a generation that’s learning, not one that’s lost.
The children came to the @UN and said “let me learn”. Having said we will listen, now we must act.
The children came to the @UN and said “let me learn”. Having said we will listen, now we must act.
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