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Andrew Mitchell MP is International Development Secretary
TV coverage of the World Cup has reminded us that children are the same the world over. We’ve seen footage of African children playing football in the streets and cheering on their footballing heroes, just like kids in the UK. Yet we are worlds apart when it comes to education.
Nthabiseng is determined to get a decent education so she can become a teacher when she grows up, as she explained eloquently at the international 1GOAL Education Summit later that day hosted by President Zuma of South Africa.
This puts a real strain on the family – due to both the cost of education and the income a family loses by choosing school over work. Donors and governments must step in to ensure that poverty is never a barrier to education, by working with education providers to guarantee access for all. The removal of tuition fees in Kenya,http://bashkimi.freeshoutbox.net/, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda has helped more than one million extra children to enrol in school in each country. My Department is now working in other African countries to help them guarantee access to quality education for all.
Across Africa, 32 million primary-age children will wake up tomorrow lacking the opportunity to go to school – around one in four of all primary-age children on the continent or eight times as many primary school children as there are in the whole of England. This shocking statistic is not only a tragedy for the children themselves, whose hopes for a successful future will be seriously diminished without the ability to read and write,http://www.mfippa.com/photo_museum/d...age.php?pos=-6, but for the continent as a whole.
Articulate and showing wisdom far beyond her years, Nthabiseng is not only in school but is also signed up to the DFID-supported Soul Buddyz programme, which helps to educate South African schoolchildren about HIV/AIDS and protect the new generation from a disease which kills 1000 South Africans every day.
That was the question posed on Sunday, hours before Spain lifted the trophy, when African heads of state, supported by others including the UK, gathered near Johannesburg to agree a new global drive to give every African girl and boy an education.
The Prime Minister was absolutely right when he said earlier this year that ‘education is the key to unlocking the potential of every child and the prosperity of every nation’. Making sure education is no longer a privilege for some but a reality for all would truly be a legacy from the World Cup to be proud of.
So many African children are desperate for an education,pandora bangles, but are denied the opportunity by a host of seemingly insurmountable barriers. For the millions of families living on less than $1 a day,http://elgg.micds.org/pg/blog/trytyh...hunter-sale-ti, the cost of schooling, directly through tuition fees or through other costs such as uniforms and books,Christian Louboutin Evening, can be an overwhelming burden.
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The World Cup is over. After a month of magnificent spectacle, the last football fan boarding the plane home from South Africa will leave behind a country rightly proud of the first World Cup to be held on African soil. But after the stadia have emptied, the world’s media have packed their bags and the vuvuzelas have fallen silent, what kind of legacy will be left for South Africa, and the continent as a whole?
On Sunday I saw for myself what Britain’s work is doing for the children of South Africa. At a primary school in Soweto, the impoverished but vibrant township on the edge of Johannesburg where the film Tsotsi is based,http://www.021sjjc.com/home/space.ph...=blog&id=29895,Christian Louboutin shoes uk, I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting Nthabiseng Tshabalala, a 12 year old schoolgirl whose mother died when she was seven.
Quality education for all offers a vital route to prosperity for poor countries, with the greatest dividends often coming from educating girls. It gives people the skills and the confidence to work their way out of poverty, and creates healthier,pandora earrings sale, more stable societies. Ensuring every girl and boy gets a basic education should be a goal for everyone who values a safer, more prosperous world.
In fact the UK, through the Department for International Development (DFID), is helping to boost education across the developing world. British aid helps five million children go to school every day, and for only 2.5% of the cost of educating almost the same number in the UK. Our support has also helped train 100,000 teachers to help ensure that children receive a quality education, one that makes a real difference to their life prospects.
The summit, which I attended, gave African heads of state the opportunity to restate their commitment to education for all and to help gather momentum on this vital issue ahead of the UN summit on global poverty this September,http://thelatinolounge.com/thelounge...pend-money-on/, when the whole of the international community needs to agree an ambitious agenda for real action to ensure we achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.