RESULTS Canada has long been an advocate for the Education for All goals and the FTI. Whether it be through letters to the editor, meetings with Members of Parliament and government officials, RESULTS has been promoting education for children as a key developmental tool for many many years.
Since 2005, RESULTS volunteers raised awareness about school fees for children. The private cost of schooling, from uniforms to the revenue lost to a family due to fewer helping hands at home, is one of the biggest barriers keeping children from accessing and completing basic education in the poorest countries of the world. In many places, poverty often imposes tough choices on families and households about how many children to send to school, which children to send to school, and how long they may attend. These are some of the many reasons why this barrier to access must be eliminated. By eliminating school fees, this is an integral first step to bringing children into classrooms and achieving universal primary education by 2015.
As part of RESULTS Canada education work, we are on the steering committee of the Canadian Global Campaign for Education (CGCE). The CGCE is the Canadian affiliate of the Global Campaign for Education, located in Geneva. Created in 2004, the Canadian Global Campaign for Education (CGCE) is a broad-based coalition of 22 non-governmental organizations, faculties of education, research institutes and teachers' unions working together to enhance Canada's contribution to provide Education for All goals
