Samina Begun and Jessica Hardy have won this year’s competition to become the Young Ambassadors for the Global Campaign for Education’s Send My Friend to School initiative.
As well as their trip to Kenya, the role will see the pair raising awareness of the global campaign to achieve universal education.
In 2000, governments around the world pledged to achieve universal primary education by 2015 – a target that was missed, despite much progress being made.
There are still 57 million primary children around the world who are not in education, with more than half of these living in sub-Saharan Africa. Half also live in conflict zones.
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