“Every child needs a teacher!” This is the motto of this year’s Global Action Week, launched by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). The purpose of the Campaign is to draw the attention of the media, institutional representatives and society in general to the urgent need to provide primary school students with a quality education.
The situation is serious: today, 61 million children do not have access to primary education and 75% of the children in poor countries might attend school for two or three years without learning to read or write. UNESCO says that a million teachers are needed in Africa alone. In fact, in seven countries of this continent the teacher/student ratio is 1 teacher for 100 children.
GCE is a civil society movement that hopes to resolve the global education crisis by bringing together teachers, humanitarian organizations and community groups for the purpose of ending illiteracy for children all over the world.