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Millennium Development Goal
2 – To achieve universal primary education
Target – Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
Education is vital for combating poverty and disease. It creates more opportunities for people and gives them a stronger voice in society. Without education there can be no development – personal, economic or social.
In 1990, many countries pledged to achieve primary education for all children by the year 2000. However, the target was missed. There are still 103 million children not in school. Most of these are in developing countries, and 57 per cent of them are girls.
In order to achieve this target by 2015, governments must ensure that all children are not only enrolling in primary school but completing their primary education as well. Currently, only 37 out of 155 developing countries have achieved universal primary completion.
Activities for this goal include:
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Guatemala case study
Information about a boy in Guatemala who wants to become a doctor. |
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Why can't some children go to school?
Class brainstorm about why some children can't attend school. Looking at quotations from children who can't go to school. |
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Education and conflict
Examining the links between conflict and lack of education: the story of a child soldier in Liberia. |
Download Goal 2 poster (68KB pdf)
Download background information and activities for this poster
(114KB pdf)
From the Change the World in Eight Steps online resource.
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