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Help Attack Poverty Head-on
Do you believe that every child has the right to go to school? More than 77 million children around the world do not attend school — 57 percent of them girls. While great strides towards universal access to basic education have been made over the years, girls continue to be denied their rights to education and healthy development.
You can do something about it. April 23-29 marks the annual Action Week for Global Education, a time dedicated to focusing attention on this important issue. Individuals and organizations like CARE are working to encourage policymakers to make a difference by ensuring that every child has the right to go to school.
Join in on this global effort by taking a moment to contact your legislator urging them to take a stand and make universal access to basic education a priority.
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Learn about CARE's work to improve
the quality of education in Malawi
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Take a Stand for Global Education
Action Week — April 23-29, 2007
Speak up and tell your politicians and officials to keep their pledges that every child not only go to school, but be taught by a well-qualified teacher who has adequate support, a reasonable class size and who can teach in her/his own language.
What CARE is Doing to Help
CARE has been a member of the Global Campaign for Education since 2003, when we participated in "The Biggest Lesson Ever," a global lesson to make children around the world more aware of the importance of education. In 2004, we continued that tradition by mobilizing advocates around the world to participate in "The Biggest Lobby Ever," where children from around the world met with their national leaders to demand access for all children to school. In 2005, over 5 million people made paper cut-outs of children and mailed them to world leaders, asking them to "Send My Friend to School." Last year, CARE and the Global Campaign for Education asked leaders to ensure that children were not only able to go to school, but were also taught by qualified teachers in the "Every Child Needs a Teacher" campaign. In 2007, CARE and the Global Campaign for Education are calling on the world to think of "Education as a Right" that needs to be guaranteed to all children everywhere
Learn how CARE offices around the world participated in Action Week 2006.
Today in the developing world, one in five adults is unable to read or write — and more than 77 million primary school-aged children are not in school. Of these, 57 percent are girls. Education is an important tool in enabling women and girls to participate in decisions that affect their lives and in improving their social status. Educated mothers are more likely to have healthier children and higher incomes, and studies show that education contributes to the prevention of AIDS and other deadly diseases. Today, CARE's basic and girls' education program helps over 3 million children benefit from a quality education in 34 countries throughout the world.
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