Haverfordwest school joins global campaign for education

5:10pm Sunday 27th April 2008

The children of Haverfordwest VC School held a special assembly recently to highlight their involvement in the Global Campaign for Education and Global Action Week, joined by Stephen Crabb MP and representatives of Oxfam Cymru.

The whole school was involved in the campaign and took part in the world record attempt for the world's biggest lesson on April 23rd called Quality Education to End Exclusion.

Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Mr Crabb also sits on the International Development Committee in Parliament and has been asked by the children to take their Send My Friend to School cards to the Prime Minister.

On the cards the children emphasised one important thing they felt they would have missed out on if they could not go to school and asked that more be done to stop others missing out.

Mr Crabb, said: "I have a deep personal interest in the issue of global education, the key way of breaking endemic poverty is to roll out education. It is incredibly important to try and break the cycles of poverty and lack of education.

"There is often concern about wasted aid money but research has shown that money spent on primary education really does have an affect - it is money well spent."

The Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, and it mobilises public pressure in governments and the international community to fulfil their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people. In particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.

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