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The World Cup is going to take place for the first time ever in South Africa this year, so show your support bu helping Action Aid with 1GOAL
As the World Cup takes place for the first time ever this year in South Africa, the Global Campaign for Education is tying up with the football world to ensure that a legacy is left behind to get every child into school.
Many famous footballers and celebrities are signing up to this call, with the aim of just 1GOAL, to get education for all.
In the year 2000, when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed, world leaders promised that every child would complete a quality education by 2015. But with just five years to go, 72 million children still don't have access to primary education, with many millions more forced to drop out of school before they can finish their education.
Mikael Silvestre, Arsenal player and 1GOAL Ambassador who funds education projects across Africa, says: "Poor communities and footballers both value one thing more than any other; to ensure their children receive a good education. This is the best way to combat poverty and exclusion and it shouldn't be a lottery as to who gets to go to school and who doesn't. If I wasn't a footballer I would like to have been a sports teacher, but to get everyone learning in Africa we need millions more teachers, this should be the 1GOAL for this year."
Since 2000 there are 40 million more children in school today around the world than there were ten years ago. Providing universal primary education by 2015 is only just still in reach, but it does cost money and there is
widespread concern that in the aftershock of the global financial crisis, the progress made so far could be slowed down or even reversed.
The Global Campaign for Education estimates that around £7 billion per year is needed from international donors for primary education, the current amount raised globally by donors stands at just £2.5 billion. So there is still a long way to go. While the world goes football crazy and all eyes are on Africa, young people in the UK are invited to join the campaign which runs in more than 100 countries to show their support of education for all.
YOU can be a part of 1GOAL Send My Friend to School. Make a giant supporter scarf, get loads of people to sign their name and send it to the Prime Minister Gordon Brown to remind him and other world leaders of their promise to make sure that all children have a primary education by 2015. Get your school to hold a World Cup assembly and help us celebrate the value of education while the world unites to watch its favourite sport.