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This World Cup, we’re asking fans to sign up to give 75 million children a fair chance in life. Education beats Poverty – and gives people the tools to help themselves.
Global football stars, the football world and its governing body, FIFA, are behind 1GOAL. This World Cup is a moment for us to shine – let’s leave a legacy of education. We don’t want your money – we just want you on our team. Write Your Name for those who can’t. Join1GOAL.org
1GOAL is an ambitious and important campaign that will change the lives of children living in poverty by helping to give them an education. We’re campaigning in over 200 countries from now until the FIFA World Cup final in South Africa in 2010.
1GOAL is quite simply a global team that will voice our wishes to world leaders to keep their promise of giving everyone an education by 2015.
Why Education for All?
Today, 75 million children are denied the chance to go to school. These children could be the next generation's leaders, sport stars, doctors and teachers. Unable to read or write, they face a lifetime of poverty. It doesn’t have to be this way.
We’ve already seen success—we’ve been able to help 40 million more children get into school and live more productive, healthy lives. We have a plan, we know how to beat this—all we need now is the will to make it happen. If we come together around this World Cup, we can do even more and reach our 1 GOAL: Education for all.
Why the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
The FIFA World Cup is the world’s biggest single sporting event, a moment when millions who come together to share the passion of football can also join together on behalf of the world’s children This World Cup is a moment for us to shine – let’s leave a legacy of education for all.
1 GOAL Ambassadors
By signing your name you will be joining a hugely impressive list of footballers who have already pledged their support for 1GOAL:
see our ambassadors section for more detail.
Background
In 2000, 164 world governments came together to create the Education for All Goals – that promised to give everyone a free quality education by 2015. World leaders also committed to the UN Millennium Development Goals that aimed to end poverty by 2015 – and include these 2 goals on education:
• Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary schooling by 2015.
• Make sure that girls have the opportunity for education at all levels by 2015.
They promised to make sure there was enough money and that the policies were in place to make it a reality. Since then many countries have abolished school fees, spending was increased to $4 billion and an extra 40 million children are now going to school!
However, a total of $11 billion is needed to give all children a Primary Education every year and a further $5 billion for 12-14 year olds . With this money and new commitments all the teachers and schools needed could be provided in order to achieve the Education for All goals.
This large sum of money is less than many Governments recently contributed to bail out their banks
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is a network of major non-governmental organizations (NGOs), teachers’ unions and civil society in more than 120 countries, that promotes action on making education, free, available, public and quality for everyone. Founded in 1999 GCE has campaigned tirelessly around to world to ensure everyone has the right to an education. More than 14 million people took part in GCE’s Global Action Week in 2009 www.campaignforeducation.org
1GOAL: Education for All is an initiative of the football strand of the Class of 2015 and the Global Campaign for Education. The Class of 2015 members include:
Bono, Sir Bob Geldof, Gordon Brown (UK Prime Minister), Jose Manuel Barroso (President of the EC), Robert Zoellick (President of the World Bank), Kevin Rudd (Australia Prime Minister), Queen Rania (Jordan), Sepp Blatter (FIFA’s President) .
FIFA joined the Class of 2015, with a pledge from Sepp Blatter for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to leave a lasting legacy of education in Africa and the rest of the world. FIFA continues to support 1GOAL in our joint efforts to achieve Education for All.
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