As part of this year’s Send My Friend to School Campaign pupils in the UK have been asking world leaders to ensure that there are enough professionally trained teachers for every child in the world to have a quality education.
Education is a basic human right and the quickest route out of poverty, but currently there are 57 million children missing out on school, with millions more learning in overcrowded classrooms and with unqualified teachers.
It is estimated that at least 1.7 million additional teachers are needed to achieve universal primary education by 2015, with more than one million of these teachers needed in Africa alone.
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