GLOBAL+CAMPAIGN+FOR+EDUCATION

Global Campaign For Education []

For all kids around the world, education is something we need for us to survive and it is something everyone should have. The Global Campaign for Education is a Colorado Day of Action today so every kid may experience health, security, hope and prosperity that a quality primary education offers.There are over 75 million children across the world that cant go to primary school. Children are blocked out of classrooms by high fees, long distances to travel and an insufficient number of teachers. • **Education saves lives.** In Africa, 5 million children each year die before their fifth birthday, children of mothers with just a few years of primary education are 40 percent more likely to survive into adulthood. Providing mothers with basic education is more effective than food aid in ending childhood malnutrition. • **Education improves health.** From improved nutrition to increased immunization, basic education provides information that can improve health in countries around the world. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, 700,000 HIV cases could be prevented every year if all children received primary education, according to Oxfam. • **Education decreases poverty.** Evidence shows that if an African mother receives a full basic education, her children are more likely to attend primary school themselves — breaking inter-generational cycles of poverty in just one lifetime. For each additional year of schooling, a person's lifetime earnings increase by almost 10 percent. • **Education leads to a safer world.** Peace and democracy are strongly correlated with education. Enrolling boys in primary school decreases the likelihood of civil war by up to 73 percent. Education is the best hope of turning young people away from violence and extremism. a company for Education could make sure that the education is tackled with sufficient resources and political resolve to put every child in school. It would be an independent, approach, developing countries and civil society based on measured results.But on 2010 is our last chance to get all children into school in time to meet the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goal of providing universal primary education for all by 2015.In September 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama pledged $2 billion to help establish a Global Fund for Education. That would help the U.S. leverage increased contributions from the rest of the world, which will in turn catalyze a coordinated response.It is in America's best interest to do so from a national security standpoint. I urge the president to lead the world in creating and endowing this fund.I look forward to the day when every child across the globe has access to a quality education.

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world," Nelson Mandela.

Natalia Madriñan