72 million children
around the world
do not go to school
Can you imagine that
774 million adults
are not able
to read and write
Can you imagine that
These children and adults
are denied their right
to an education
Can you imagine that
1GOAL: Education for All
now can you imagine that
in this world we live in
this planet of ours that
we do not yet own
1GOAL: Education for All
a quality public education
is our constitutional right
and is not a commodity
only for the well-heeled
1GOAL: Education for All
Educated people are often healthier people
Education beats hunger
Education saves lives
Education gives you more choices in life
Education helps end poverty
Can you imagine that
Penned sometime between 12-13 April 2010 – as a concerned and supposedly literate citizen – in support of the “1GOAL: Education for All” campaign that ‘looks to use the power of football to make sure that everyone is able to get a quality education’. I copied, quite unashamedly, from the Public Participation in Education Network’s ‘1GOAL: Lesson for ALL’ document circulating in the ether of the Internet.
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