Every child has the right to education, and these rights start from birth.

But every year, over 200 million children under the age of five do not receive these rights, giving them less chance to achieve their potential and end the cycle of poverty.

The Global Campaign for Education is calling on world leaders to keep their promises and ensure early childhood care and education for every child – right from the start. You can do this by submitting your Big Picture here or by signing your name to the campaign. If you are a teacher representing a school, please use the Register School or Organisation form
Add Signup Send your messages to world leaders by signing the petition below. Messages and Big Pictures submitted here will be delivered to UNESCO Headquarters in Paris at the end of May 2012.

You can also Tweet your support for the campaign here

Dear world leaders

Every child has the right to education, and these rights start from birth. But every year, over 200 million children under the age of five do not receive these rights, denying them their best chance to achieve their potential and end the cycle of poverty. I call on you to keep your promises and ensure early childhood care and education (ECCE) for every child – right from the start.

I support the Global Campaign for Education’s Rights from the Start campaign and ask for:

ECCE for all children, without discrimination: Governments must ensure availability of ECCE for all children, taking measures to overcome all forms of discrimination and reduce inequalities in access to and quality of ECCE.

Teacher and curriculum development: Governments should ensure that ECCE teachers are trained and supported as professional teaching staff, and that ECCE programmes encompass children’s educational, developmental, nutritional, health and individual needs, including through parenting support.

Increased investment and improved coordination in early childhood care and education
  • Governments must adopt a single, coherent ECCE policy, which may include work carried out across different ministries and agencies (e.g. education, health), but which has one clear lead agency.
  • Governments should ensure that at least 1% of GDP is spent on early childhood services.
Donor governments must honour commitments to support all countries to achieve Education for All, especially Goal One.


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@globaleducation 1bn children under 8yrs old - the neglect of their right to care & education cannot continue #GAW2012 http://bit.ly/I0P0qG


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