Send My Friend To School 2012

Each year, the Global Campaign for Education invites parents, teachers and young people from around the world to call on governments to keep the promise they made in 2000 to provide universal primary education by 2015.

In that time, the number of children out of school has dropped by more than 40 million. However there are still 67 million children missing out on school – and many of them are girls.

2012 is an Olympic year, offering athletes from every country the chance to test their abilities in hundreds of sporting events. Every child should have the opportunity to achieve all that they can, and education is the key to that.

We aim to use the exciting theme of the Olympics to remind world leaders that the race is on. There are only three years to go to reach the target of universal primary education by 2015, and it’s vital that we win this race.

Watch the animation and play the game

Register for your Olympics-themed school pack

More about Send My Friend to School

Send My Friend to School is run by a partnership of charities, including Oxfam and teachers’ unions, and involves young campaigners in over 100 countries.

An amazing 600,000 young people in the UK took part in last year’s campaign- reaching 98% of all the MPs in Parliament.

Read your stories from 2011

In September 2011, DFID announced a £355 million DFID’s Girls Education Challenge— to help up to a million of the world’s poorest girls go to school.

Read a review of all that we achieved in 2011