23.02.2010 1 GOAL
I would like to ask you to pay attention to this. Watch the last video on line in the section “Adp Tv” It concerns the promotion of the campaign “1GOAL – Education for All”, and I’ve joined this campaign as a testimonial.
I really do care to tell you about this initiative. In the clip you can see a boy who says :”When I finish school I want to become a pilot, I want to learn to fly planes and helicopters” When he finishes school… For him the education is the door that opens into the fulfillment of his dreams, those dreams that all the children must have the right to have. But one of these most important and basic rights, the right for education, is denied to millions of little children, men and women of the future. Just think that 72 millions of children in the world can’t do what you are doing now: they can’t read. And they can’t write.
A lot of you have heard Queen Rania of Jordan, the co-founder of the campaign, to rally the support for “1GOAL – Education for All” at the Sanremo festival (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpAguY9xWQU&feature=player_embedded). The campaign offers to make aware and put pressure on the world leaders to make them get down to work to eradicate the poverty, guaranteeing education to all the children who still remain out of school.
But why “1GOAL”? Because it has to do a lot with football. In fact, the campaign seizes the power of football and the interest that people take in the World Cup in South Africa and use them to spread this message. “1GOAL – Education for All” doesn’t ask for money, but just for a signature to give the strength and consistency to this ideological movement that ask the leaders of the world to keep the promises made earlier and to respect the taken duties, regarding the right for education for all the children of the world.
“Education for all” is an international engagement that world leaders have taken to guarantee public education of good quality for all the children and adults by 2015. This engagement gives the priority to those who, at the present moment, don’t receive any kind of education, taking them to school and making sure that once at school they can have the possibility to study with qualified teachers. Among the targets of the movement there’s also the possibility to teach adults that didn’t have a possibility to attend a school to read and write. Joining the “1GOAL” you’ll see your name written on the petition 1GOAL among all the other people that have one and the same wish: the right for the education. 1GOAL will present millions of names to the governments before the next United Nations meeting “Millennium Development Goals” in September 2010, asking them to make sure that the targets of education will be reached by 2015.
I would like to invite you to visit
www.join1goal.org site to sign up for “1GOAL – Education for All”, like I did. To spread this message as much as possible, would be nice to use all the other networks and tools (Facebook, Twitter, You tube, Flickr, banner that you can download and put up on your sites and blogs).
In some years, thanks to the movement like this, a young pilot would be able to say that he’d managed to make his dream come true.
Alessandro
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