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Universal Education

In 1990, the UN adopted eight Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) to be acheived by the year 2015. The UN's stand is that if we, as a global community, can reach these 8 goals by the year 2015, the world will be better off.

Target 1: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

You can help raise awareness of this MDG by completing the following actions:

Ask your teacher how you can help another student in class today

Play a game or two of MDG Chase and share one fact you learned with someone

Create and share your own daily action related to MDG #2, Universal Education

Read through the MDG 2009 Fast Facts poster and share the fact that surprises you the most with someone

Visit www.campaignforeducation.org/bigread and discover how many adults worldwide cannot read

Read a book or story to someone else today

Visit www.campaignforeducation.org and sign up for the Global Action Week on April 20th

Use the Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals and discover 3 countries where less than 50% of children go to school

Find 3 countries that are close to meeting the Millennium Development Goals by using the Google Earth layer from www.mdgmonitor.org

Play a few rounds of the Sim*Sweatshop at www.simsweatshop.com to experience working conditions in some developing countries

Make a poster that helps raise awareness of the MDGs

Tell 3 people today something you've learned about the U.N. or the MDGs

Copy one of the e-mail signatures from www.mdgpledge.org and set it as your e-mail's signature

Resources

Below you will find places where you can learn more about the important work people across the globe are doing (and that you can do) in order to help achieve the Millenium Development Goal: Universal Education.

The United Nation's Cyber Schoolbus is a perfect site for all ages to get a grasp of how kids around the world can help raise awareness of the Millenium Development Goals. Play games, check out resources, and dig into data comparing how well each country is meeting the MDGs.

The interactive Atlas of the Millenium Development Goals is a great resource for visualizing just how unbalanced the world really is. This is a great place for older students to explore on their own the inequality that exists in the world, or for teachers of younger students to help compare countries with one another.

Taking IT Global is one of the sites that the Take Action! project is based upon. Taking IT Global has games, online galleries filled with student art, resources for educators, and ways to help empower citizens to act towards achieveing the Millenium Development Goals.

The Global Campaign for Education is a social movement dedicated to eliminating the education crisis around the world. It's goal is for universal education, or education for everyone.