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MDG / GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION
STORY: UNICEF / MDG GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION
TRT: 3.12
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: NEW YORK CITY, USA, 20 SEPTEMBER 2010
1. Various shots, education side event panel
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nthabiseny Tshabalala, 12 years old:
“Please help us politicians. You had the opportunity to go to school. Now you are here and meeting at the UN. Please make sure that 69 million children get the chance to go to school.”
3. Med shot, Queen Rania walks to podium.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) HM Queen Rania of Jordan, UNICEF Eminent Advocate for Children:
“Education doesn’t just beat poverty it beats disease. It beats inequality. And for girls education is nothing less than a lifesaver from stigmatization insecurity and violence. It’s the issue that cuts across all others.”
5. Med shot, Gordon Brown walks to podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, Former UK Prime Minister:
“I am angry about the waste of opportunity and potential in education in so many parts of our world today but I am inspired by so many people who want to make possible in our generation for the first time the right of everyone to be able to go to school.”
7. Various shots, World Bank announces extra money for education
8. Med shots, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake at panel discussion
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director
“We need to concentrate not just on the hardest to reach nations but the hardest to reach areas because those are the areas of the greatest need. A recent UNICEF study shows that in health terms and we believe this is true in education as well that it’s more cost-effective to work in these areas because that is where the needs are greatest and the payoffs are greatest.”
10. Various shots, GAVI side event
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Orin S Levine, Executive Director, International Vaccine Access Centre:
“I’m hoping that this year at the MDGs one of the things that will become increasingly prominent is the importance of pneumonia and diarrhea the two leading killers of children that for years have not really been at the top of the agenda. From where I stand looking at the data the road to the MDGs goes right through pneumonia and diarrhea and there’s so much.”
12. Various, vaccine side event
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Julian Lob-Levyt, GAVI Alliance:
“We really working on child mortality and to some extent maternal mortality as you know maternal mortality is a long way off track and child mortality. We need to do a lot more in some of the poorest.”
14. Various, event
Education was first up at the Millenium Development Goal summit. At an event organized by the Global Campaign for Education a twelve year old girl from Soweto made a simple request.
SOUNDBITE (English) Nthabiseny Tshabalala, 12 years old:
“Please help us politicians. You had the opportunity to go to school. Now you are here and meeting at the UN. Please make sure that 69 million children get the chance to go to school.”
Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan appealed to governments to make investing in education in the developing world a priority.
SOUNDBITE (English) HM Queen Rania of Jordan, UNICEF Eminent Advocate for Children:
“Education doesn’t just beat poverty it beats disease. It beats inequality. And for girls education is nothing less than a lifesaver from stigmatization insecurity and violence. It’s the issue that cuts across all others.”
She was echoed by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown.
SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, Former UK Prime Minister:
“I am angry about the waste of opportunity and potential in education in so many parts of our world today but I am inspired by so many people who want to make possible in our generation for the first time the right of everyone to be able to go to school.”
In response the World Bank announced that it would allocate an additional 750 million dollars to countries that are lagging in their education goals.
And UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake emphasized that helping the poorest is the most effective way to get every child into primary school.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director
“We need to concentrate not just on the hardest to reach nations but the hardest to reach areas because those are the areas of the greatest need. A recent UNICEF study shows that in health terms and we believe this is true in education as well that it’s more cost-effective to work in these areas because that is where the needs are greatest and the payoffs are greatest.”
Later in the day Mr Lake also attended a panel discussing, sponsored by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization on the challenges of immunizing children against disease.
SOUNDBITE (English) Orin S Levine, Executive Director, International Vaccine Access Centre:
“I’m hoping that this year at the MDGs one of the things that will become increasingly prominent is the importance of pneumonia and diarrhea the two leading killers of children that for years have not really been at the top of the agenda. From where I stand looking at the data the road to the MDGs goes right through pneumonia and diarrhea and there’s so much.”
The GAVI Alliance has prioritized the introduction of vaccines over the next five years.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Julian Lob-Levyt, GAVI Alliance:
“We really working on child mortality and to some extent maternal mortality as you know maternal mortality is a long way off track and child mortality. We need to do a lot more in some of the poorest.”
UNICEF is using community based low cost programmes such as oral rehydration, antibiotics and micro-nutrients to attack these diseases.
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