OneWorld.net (U.S.)

While education is key to ending extreme poverty, over 100 million children around the world are not in school. In 2000, world leaders made a commitment to achieve universal primary education for all children by signing the Millennium Declaration. Today – five years later – world leaders are falling short of their target to ensure all children are in school by 2015.

Action Week (April 24-30) is a worldwide effort to remind world leaders of their promise that every child should have an education.

This year's campaign, "Send My Friend to School," has the worldwide goal of sending 1 million "friends" to world leaders. Participants will make life-size and smaller-scale cut-outs of friends to send as petitions to the G-8 Summit, a meeting of the leaders of the eight economically advanced countries, slated to take place this July.

Get Involved!

To participate in Action Week, register and then download Action Week resources to get you started. Teachers, students, youth groups, and after school programs – everyone can participate so that we can reach our goal and let world leaders know that United States supports education for all of the world's children.

The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is a worldwide coalition made up of non-governmental organizations and teaching unions in over 150 countries who believe that every child should have free, quality education, and the chance that education brings to escape a lifetime of poverty.

This action week report has been taken from Netaid