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| Ambassador Kawsu Sillah |
Kawsu Sillah a Gambian born youth activist has been
appointed as a Global Youth Ambassador for A World at School, Mansa Banko blog can report.
A World at School is global movement of young
leaders working to get 57 million children into school and learning by the end
of 2015 – as the world promised in Millennium Development Goal 2 (MDG 2)
“I was moved to join this call to action because my
right to education has being denied and also Shazia and Kainat along with
Malala Yousafzai, were shot by the Taliban for going to school in Pakistan just
over a year ago. Their story, and that of so many other youth advocates I have
joined forces with, inspires me to stand up for the millions of children that
are kept out of school because of poverty, early marriage, child labour and
different forms of discrimination,” says Sillah
As a newly-appointed Global Youth Ambassador for the
movement, “I want to bring attention to the 57 million children around the
world currently being denied their human right to an education by urging
leaders to raise budgets, build schools, train teachers and improve learning
for all children. And I will also provide support to students facing economic
challenges in the rural areas of the Gambia as a personal commitment,” noted
Sillah Youth Ambassador in The Gambia.
According to him, it has been shown that we could
lift more than 170 million people out of poverty simply by teaching every child
in low-income countries basic reading skills.
So why are we not making this a reality?
Unless we revert current trends, we will not even
achieve universal primary education before 2086.
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