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“1 GOAL: EDUCATION FOR ALL CAMPAIGN”: TOGETHER
LET’S TAKE A STAND FOR THE EDUCATION THAT EVERY PERSON HAS A
RIGHT TO!
Background
72
million children around the world do not go to school; denied their right to an
education. While a few children in South Africa enjoy well resourced and
functional schooling (in mostly historically white, urban and middle class
schools) the education system remains painfully divided and unequal. Our system
of education is in a crisis, but change is not out of our reach.
2010 is
a momentous year for South Africa. Not only is the World Cup taking place here,
on African soil, for the first time ever, but with the world’s focus on us we
have the opportunity as a nation to
come together and
mobilise around
the project of education. As a nation we have the chance to ensure that
education is made a national priority; placed at the top of the national
agenda.
WE
can make a difference: ‘1GOAL: Education for All’ campaign
“1GOAL:
Education for All” campaign is
a
unique and exciting
FIFA supported campaign based around the 2010 World Cup. The purpose of this
international campaign is to galvanize support and energy around the World Cup
to help ensure that after the last vuvuzela is blown at Soccer City in July
2010, a legacy of education is established in Africa;
a legacy that will see
every child in Africa being able to actualize their right of going to school.
1GOAL has already garnered the support of thousands of individuals, and
innumerable high profile international and local politicians, celebrities and
footballers such as
State President Jacob Zuma, UN Secretary General, Ban Ki
Moon, US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, Matthew Booth, Robinho,
Marcel Desailly, Shakira, Jessica Alba – to name but a few
.
Global
Action Week, held annually by the Global Campaign for Education (from the 19th
to 25th April 2010), is launched in over 100 countries simultaneously and aims
to reach millions of people across the world. The purpose of the 2010 Action
Week is to ensure the 1GOAL message of
Education for All, as committed
to in Dakar by world leaders, is kept.
1GOAL is collecting names and
support from the public, footballers and celebrities to make a united plea to
all governments to meet their target on 'Education for All'.
In South Africa we are campaigning for a
quality public education for all in South Africa, as well as standing in
solidarity with our brother and sisters around the world who are denied their
right to learn.
We
ask you to join this exciting campaign by taking part in and taking this lesson
to as many people in South Africa as possible. For every person that takes
part, their name, along with the names of the millions of other people taking
part, will be sent to world leaders to make sure that they commit to their
promise that by 2015 everyone will be able to receive a free, quality public
education. By taking part in the lesson we are also saying that we care
about education in South Africa and that everyone in South Africa must be given
their right to a free quality public, education.