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David Ward with Gary & Danielle Linekar holding a scarf created by students at Idle C of E Primary School in support of 1 Goals Campaign for getting every child in the world into school
David Ward joined with Gary and Danielle Linekar at the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday 14 September to show support for the 1 GOAL campaign. Gary Linekar is an Ambassador for 1GOAL, an initiative which aims to mobilise support for education for all through the power of football.
During the World Cup Dani Lineker joined 1GOAL on an education trip to Khayleitsha, one of the fastest growing townships in South Africa, where opportunities for children are very limited.
The parliamentary event was held to highlight the global education crisis at this critical time. Next week in New York (20-22 September) world leaders will be meeting to review progress on the UN Millennium Goals; 2 out of the 8 goals involve tackling poverty by ensuring that all boys and girls complete primary schooling by 2015. With just 5 years to go there are still 72 million children who are being denied even a basic primary education.
The Global Campaign for Education, which organises 1GOAL, states that education is not only a human right but the fastest route out of poverty and says it is vital that the UK government must stand by its existing financial commitment of £1billion per year, until 2015, to support education internationally.
Gary Linekar said: "Delivering education for the 72 million children that are currently denied access to education is an achievable dream. We know that the world has the resources to deliver it. Now it's time for world leaders to make it happen - for rich countries to deliver the funding needed, and for governments of developing countries to ensure that education is the top priority in their country".
David Archer, International Board Member for the Global Campaign for Education said: "This year 1 million pupils, in 9000 schools across the UK, joined the Global Campaign for Education's 1GOAL Send My Friend to School campaign, linked to the World Cup, which focused on getting every child in the world into school
David Ward said "I attended a school assembly at Idle C of E Primary School and saw for myself the enthusiasm with which the whole school had supported the 1GOAL campaign and it was great to meet Gary and Dani so that I could show them the fantastic work carried out by the pupils".
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