Global Leaders' Plea for Education
Picture of the Week: "Education is not only a basic human right. It is fundamental to ending extreme poverty." - Jim Yong Kim, World Bank President.
April 11, 2014 by GPE Secretariat
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"Education is not only a basic human right. It is fundamental to ending extreme poverty"

This is what World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said at the opening of the Learning for All Symposium in Washington, DC yesterday.  Kim expressed strong support for the Second Replenishment of the Global Partnership for Education, asking ministers of finance from donor and developing countries to fund education as a way to fight poverty.

The event was attended by United Nations Secretariat General Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown, GPE CEO Alice Albright, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, and a panel of ministers of finance from Bangladesh, Malawi, Norway, Papua New Guinea and Senegal.

 

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April 11, 2014 by Umenjoh Peter

Education is the foundation to a prosperous economy or state. We thank World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and other personalities and stakeholders in their fight for quality education in the world. Person's with disabilities are glamoring for total inclusion in schools and we hope that all schools around the globe will be inclusive in the years ahead.

April 11, 2014 by Nancy L Curtiss

Recalling my delight in gaining the power reading provided me Ieads my campaign toward expanding the same opportunity to all youngsters. What possibilities each mind embraces, eager to explore their curiousity, their potential creativity. This is humanities greatest resource.

April 13, 2014 by Anne Child

I hope Raj Shah listens to the others and then the U.S. decides to make a decent pledge at the GPE replenishment conference in June... $250 million over 2 years. It should be more but at least then the U.S. would be a contributor.

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