Muslim Aid\\\'s bid to get every child into school by year-end
Sunday, 12 April 2015
Muslim Aid UK Bangladesh Field Office (MABFO) has launched a global campaign of UpForSchool which is a global petition in collaboration with A World at School, says a press release.
This campaign is a unique global coalition where Muslim Aid is a member working together to get every child into school and learning. MABFO committed to collect one million signatures from Bangladeshis to support the petition. There are more than 58 million children out of school in the world. The campaign aims to mobilise global population to make sure the world leaders keep their promises to secure every child's right to education by the end of 2015. On March 19, Advocate Mustafizur Rahman, Minister for Primary and Mass Education, inaugurated the campaign in Sujapur Model School at Fulbari Upazilla of Dinajpur. He said, Bangladesh achieved a lot in MDG 2 under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina which is appreciated by international bodies but still there is a challenge of reducing dropout rate.