DIDIER DROGBA SUPPORTS INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN EDUCATION AROUND THE WORLD

The Ivorian and Chelsea legend has thrown his weight behind an initiative to send millions of children around the world to school and provide basic educational needs

DIDIER DROGBA SUPPORTS  INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN EDUCATION AROUND THE WORLD
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Chelsea and Ivorian legend Didier Drogba, has recently backed a new Global Partnership for Education (GPE) "Raise Your Hand" financing campaign. The campaign which was launched in October 2020 with the United Kingdom and Kenya with the aims and objectives to raise at least $5bn to help in transforming educational systems in more than 90 low income countries and territories, with the calculations to impact at least one billion children in those targeted countries around the world.

The campaign is set to climax at a Global Education Summit in London on 28 and 29 of July 2021. The event is set to be hosted by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta. Drogba in his word said: "The Raise Your Hand campaign is an opportunity to transform education and unlock a brighter future for more than a billion girls and boys around the world to facilitate a brighter future.

"The initiative is the highest of its kind and the stakes has never been higher for children in the modern world.. More than a quarter of a billion children were out of school before the COVID-19 pandemic, and millions more could be affected if world leaders failed to step up to invest in education. Raise your hand, fund education." GPE CEO Alice Albright added: "We are delighted that Didier Drogba is supporting GPE's 2021-2025 financing campaign and we can be sure he will bring more awareness and contribution to the stake in achieving success.

"As the education sector faces an unprecedented crisis due to COVID-19, there's need to mobilize global support to help countries build strong, resilient and inclusive education systems. "Didier Drogba's voice helps carry our message to decision makers all over the world. If we are to create an equitable and sustainable future, we must put education first."

The United Kingdom civil society organisations are calling on the government to contribute £600m towards the global target which would help education systems recover from Covid-19 and enable 175 million more girls and boys to learn and improve their immediate lives and that of the future.


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