Action Week 2005: Send My Friend to School
Send Us Your Friends!

You've made your friends, now give them feet! Action Week may be over, but you still have to send us your friends. We're collecting all of the friends made in the U.S. and sending them across the Atlantic, where they will greet world leaders at the G-8 conference.  

You have until May 15, 2005, to send them to NetAid:

NetAid: Action Week 2005
267 5th Ave.
11th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Or, if you have made your friends but forgot to register, it's not too late. You can still download Action Week materials and let world leaders know that education for all should be the highest global priority. 

What is Global Action Week? Why are we sending friends?

Although education is essential to winning the fight against global poverty, over 100 million children worldwide are not in school. In 2000, world leaders signed the Millennium Declaration and made the commitment to provide universal primary education for all by 2015. Today, more than five years later, they are falling far short of their goal.

Every year, as part of the Global Campaign for Education, a campaign called Action Week reminds world leaders of their responsibility to make sure that every child gets an education. This year, from April 24-30, teachers, students and youth groups worldwide participated in the "Send My Friend to School" campaign.

The goal was to send one million "friends" to world leaders to remind them of their promise to achieve universal primary education. People from around the world made life-size and small-scale cut-outs of "friends" to send as petitions to the G-8 Summit – a meeting of the eight most industrialized countries in the world – which will be held in Scotland in July. In the coming weeks, NetAid is gathering all of the friends made in the U.S. to send to the meeting.

The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is a worldwide coalition made up of non-governmental organizations and teaching unions in over 150 countries who believe that every child should have free, quality education, and the chance that education brings to escape a lifetime of poverty.