In an open letter delivered to ministers at a United Nations summit in Paris yesterday, a coalition of youth activists representing leading charities warn the world leaders investment in the early years is needed to avert a crisis.
The coalition – led by global education charity Theirworld – includes charitable organisations such as The Lego Foundation and the Sesame Workshop – the non-profit behind the Sesame Street TV programme. A delegation of their youth activists travelled to Paris to deliver the letter to 120 ministers attending the Transforming Education Pre-Summit, held from 28-30 June.
Within the letter, they call upon governments and international donors to guarantee a minimum of two years’ high-quality, child-centred pre-primary education for every child, as well as commit at least 10 per cent of their education budgets to pre-primary education and support early years education for children caught up in humanitarian crisis.
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