The Optimism of Youth

Welcome to our blog. Here we will document the work we are doing on compiling our book "The Optimism of Youth" based on Millennium Development Goal No 2 - Universal Primary Education by 2015. We are being supported in this project by Self Help Africa

Do you have a reflection on your primary school days, a poem to share, perhaps a photograph from those days? Our aim is to highlight the importance of primary education and why MDG No 2 is such a vital goal.

All contributions are welcome and can be sent to towards2015@gmail.com

Friday, May 14, 2010

Bob Geldof's new MDG project

We emailed Bob Geldof for a submission but unfortunately he was not able to respond, no reason given, but we did get this email from Zita at ONE www.one.org.


"Dear Meg,

Thank you for your request for a submission from Bob Geldof for your project. It has been passed on to me as we at ONE work with him on his Africa campaigning activities. Unfortunately it will not be possible for him to do a contribution, but this is a really great project and I wish you every success with it.
ONE’s mission is focused on achievement of the MDGs, and education is so important not just in its own right but as a key element of enabling the others to be reached. There is some policy information about education in Africa on our website here, in case it is of any use to.
In the run up to the World Cup (rather a sore point I know!) we are part of a coalition called 1 goal which is running a big campaign for the World Cup to create focus on the need for education and generate momentum around MDG 2 http://www.join1goal.org/

Congratulations on this project, it looks great.

With thanks and best wishes
Zita"

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