World Vision Bangladesh collects 1.5m signatures for #UpForSchool Petition
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When World Vision Bangladesh decided to get involved with the #UpForSchool campaign, it sprang into action and activated a network of children, parents, teachers and community and religious leaders.
It shared messages on child forums, held youth rallies, went into classrooms, visited markets and went door to door in villages across the country.
The result? An incredible 1.5 million signatures collected for the #UpForSchool Petition, a youth-led demand for world leaders to keep their promise to get every child into school and learning without fear of danger or discrimination. That has helped take the total signatures collected to more than 4.5 million.
Shabira Nupur of World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) said: 国产视频淩egardless of gender, religion, class, or caste all people have the right to have an education.国产视频澨
As part of Word Vision International国产视频檚 global humanitarian mission to ensure the wellbeing of children, the Bangladesh team works to improve access to and quality of education in a country where 1.5 million children remain out of school.
There has been progress 国产视频 since 2000 Bangladesh has doubled the number of children completing primary school and more girls now attend school than boys. But dropout levels remain high and too few children move into secondary education, with many girls missing out on schooling because they get married young and have children.
Shabira 国产视频 who is WVB国产视频檚 National Advocacy Coordinator (Child Protection & Education) 国产视频 said: 国产视频淪afety in schools is still an issue, especially for girls, and the quality of education is a big question. To create pressure on the Bangladesh government and global leaders to invest in education, WVB decided to take part in the #UpForSchool campaign.
WVB shared the idea with its senior management team and developed a roadmap to make the biggest contribution possible. It shared this plan with its regional management, technical team, area development programmes (ADP) and Special Projects (SP).
Shabira explained: 国产视频淲e made sure the staff and volunteers collecting the signatures knew all about #UpForSchool. Then we shared the message with children and their families and in child forums.
国产视频淲e conducted youth rallies, went into schools to collect signatures from teachers and students, and held sessions for community leaders, religious leaders and development workers.国产视频
#UpForSchool signatures collected by World Vision Bangladesh
All that hard work has paid off with WVB collecting 1,512,596 signatures! They came from several regions 国产视频 Central, North Bangla, Southern Bangla, Mymensign and Ain O Salis Kendra.听
Among the people who signed were children, teachers, parents, government officials, journalists, volunteers, businesses, community organisations and WVB staff and committee members.
Faruque Ahmed, a teacher from Kalkini, said: 国产视频淚t is a good initiative to mobilise children effectively and it will remind teachers to have effective classes to help the learning capacity of children.国产视频
Israt Jahan, a student at North Sutalori High School in Morelganj, Bagerhat, said: 国产视频淚t is a nice way of raising our voice against all the kinds of discrimination we are facing. I am very happy to be a participant in this campaign.国产视频
And Mohibullah Kazi, Secretary of the Central Child Forum in Kotalipara, added: 国产视频淭his campaign will help the Forum国产视频檚 aims of lessening the dropout from school due to early child听 marriage and child labour that will ultimately give access to education for all.国产视频
The #UpForSchool Petition will be handed to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. The amazing efforts of organisations like World Vision 国产视频 an active member of the Global Faiths Coalition for Education 国产视频 will ensure that millions of peoplem from around the world have their say on the need to get all children into school.
Ben Hewitt, A World at School国产视频檚 Director of Campaigns and Communications, said: 国产视频淲orld Vision is working tirelessly with the most excluded and marginalised communities around the world. It is inspiring to see them supporting and empowering young people to stand #UpForSchool and bring about change by making sure the voices of children and youth are heard by world leaders.国产视频
You can visit World Vision Bangladesh国产视频檚 own #UpForSchool Petition page here.
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