Entries related to "Education for All"Fighting For Gender Equality and Girls Education in Mali: A Report From the FieldRESULTS’ Education for All Campaign Manager is in Mali to conduct a case study on girls’ education for an upcoming report that will be launched in June with the Global Campaign for Education. From Bamako, she writes about the great progress that has been made and why we should still continue to fight for even the most basic rights for the women in Mali and around the world. Start with a GirlOn October 10, the Center for Global Development launched a new report that underscores the central role girls play in global development and poverty alleviation. Ambassador-at-Large for Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer spoke at the launch of Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health and reminded us that we should look at “girls and women not as victims, but as agents of change.” When girls reach adolescence, explained Verveer, they reach a dangerous “precipice” filled with the trap doors of poverty,violence, sexuality without access to health information, lack of access to secondary education, and child marriage. Take Part in Global Education Day of Action on December 10!On December 10, the Global Campaign for Education is holding a Day of Action to encourage President Obama to lead the world in supporting a Global Fund for Education and funding it in his budget request to Congress. This Day of Action will allow all of us to not only reach out to the administration, but it will also help increase public awareness of the need for universal basic education and help people in the United States identify steps they can take to realize the goal of universal basic education by 2015. Mary Njoroge's Grassroots Tour on EducationRESULTS Educational Fund’s Education for All campaign was pleased and honored to host Mary Njoroge on her trip to the United States last week. Mary traveled to Atlanta and Athens, Georgia; Chicago; Cleveland; Philadelphia; and Washington, D.C., to meet up grassroots volunteers and help them educate their communities, the media, and members of Congress about the importance of overcoming the obstacles to education that many developing nations face by supporting a Global Fund for Education. LA School Kids Learn “Lesson For All”Los Angeles teacher Angela Benson-McDaniel shares 1Goal’s Lesson For All to her fifth-graders. Mary Njoroge and The Dallas, TX, Global RESULTS Team Working Towards Education For AllMargaret Smith, grassroots leader of the Dallas Global RESULTS Team, shares a great story about how her and her teams persistent pursuit of a great speaker (Mary Njoroge) made the difference in scoring a face to face with Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson to drive home the importance of the Education For All Act. Atlanta RESULTS Engaging Big Soccer and Music Talent in Education for AllRead about how two RESULTS grassroots partners are leveraging powerful voices in their community to draw awareness to poverty reduction, Education for All, and other RESULTS issues. Education for All Act of 2010RESULTS supported the Education for All Act of 2010 and looks forward to the reintroduction in 2011. Visit our Take Action education page for the latest updates. Be Part of the Blue Ribbon Campaign for Education for AllGlobal Action Week for Education is nearly here. October 2011 Global Call: GPE is a Good InvestmentThe October 2011 Global Conference Call provided great information on working with editors, and on getting kids in school. How the Global Partnership for Education Could Change the WorldThe Global Partnership for Education could affect millions of lives and, ultimately, all of us. Read more. |