Never Be Silent

Secretary Clinton joins 1Goal: Education for All, the 2010 World Cup initiative to bring education to children everywhere.

1 Goal is a campaign in support of education for children around the world. From now until the 2010 FIFA World Cup, 1 Goal is collecting signatures from ordinary citizens in an effort to show our global leaders that education must be a priority in international development. Add your name in support of education.

Today, 75 million children around the world are denied the opportunity to go to school. These children could be the next generation’s leaders, sport stars, doctors and teachers. But without an education they are confined to a life of poverty.
They’re ready to do their homework—but school fees, conflict, working in factories and farms, losing their parents to sickness, the cost of a school uniform or sometimes simply being a girl keeps them from being able to attend school.
Whatever their background - orphans, refugees, poor, disabled, child soldiers, child labourers, from disadvantaged backgrounds – the result is the same – denied the chance to learn they will never be able to fulfil their potential.


Education beats Poverty – and enables people to help themselves.

• • Education is key to breaking the cycle of poverty for families, communities and whole countries.
• • It leads to economic growth, democracy and a more stable future.
• • Education is the best tool we have for tackling poverty, and it is the one investment that ultimately pays for itself: When a child gets educated, they will eventually earn more and be better able to support their family.
• • A child who goes to school will earn an extra 10% for every year of schooling they receive and be 50% less likely to become infected with HIV/AIDS if the complete Primary School.

Education For All is urgently needed if we are to tackle poverty, ill health and hunger.  An education can offer hope and a future to children in the developing world who desperately deserve a chance in life.