Ask World Leaders To 'Send My Friend to School'

The Global Campaign for Education's sixth annual Action Week this year gives AFT members an opportunity to highlight the plight of more than 100 million children throughout the world who have never attended school.

This year's Action Week, April 24-30, is cosponsored by the AFT, the National Education Association (NEA), Education International and teacher unions throughout the world.  The Global Campaign for Education provides participants with a lesson plan and other resources that highlight the barriers to an education that many children face worldwide. Also included are hands-on activities for advocating greater educational opportunities for children around the world.

This year, participants are being asked to create cutouts--either life-size or small scale--of children representing those who are not being educated around the world.  In the United States, the cutouts are being collected by NetAid, which will send them to President Bush and other leaders of industrialized nations attending an economic summit in Scotland during July.  At the summit, world leaders will be discussing the role education can play in eliminating global poverty.

The AFT International Affairs Department has created a voluntary registration page on its to track the number of AFT participants in this year's program.

If you would like to register and participate in the "Send My Friend to School" project, click here.  To view available lesson plans and other resources, click here.