Children attend a school in Bangladesh. Picture: G.M.B. Akash / Panos
Education is fundamental to everything we do. It is the key to beating poverty and the greatest investment we can make for global prosperity and the future of our world. Education transforms countries and societies; an extra year of quality schooling lifts a country’s annual economic growth by 1%.
Educated children are able to take better care of their families and find greater employment opportunities in adulthood. Yet more than 61 million children are out of primary school across the world.
By 2015 we will:
- support nine million children in primary school
- support two million children in lower secondary school, at least half of which will be girls
- train more than 190,000 teachers and improve the quality of education and children’s learning.