Send My Friend to School – the Global Campaign for Education

Jessica Hardy and Samina Begum – year 10 students from Limehurst School in Loughborough – are the 2016 Young Ambassadors for the Send My Friend to School campaign. They have just returned from Kenya with Deaf Child Worldwide where they investigated the barriers to education for deaf children.
Worldwide, 124 million children, aged five to 15, are missing out on school. Children with disabilities make up a large proportion of these, often finding it hard to access the education that is their right.
In Kenya, it is estimated that as few as one in six children with disabilities are in school. However, the new Global Goals agreed last year now include a focus on “inclusive and equitable education for all”.
This week, SecEd publishes a diary from their trip explaining the situation for some of the children they met and highlighting the task ahead for the Kenyan government and world leaders. It is all part of the on-going campaign to achieve universal education for every child.