Jessica Alba & Bono visit Ghana with 1GOAL

Bono, Jessica Alba, U.S Co-Chair of 1GOAL and a number of African soccer players visited a school in Ghana in support of 1GOAL: Education for All.

1Goal is a new initiative, centered around the 2010 World Cup and aims at raising awareness and money to promote education for all the world’s children. It is inspired by United Nations Millennium Development Goals signed by world governments in 2000. The two main targets are:

• To ensure that all boys and girls complete primary schooling by 2015
• To ensure that girls have the opportunity for education at all levels by 2015.

Watch the following video about the visit and as Alba explains her belief that education for all can pull the majority of the world out of extreme poverty.

Jessica Alba wrote about her visit:

I had an incredible week, joining the ONE team on the road in Senegal and Ghana as part of the 1GOAL: Education for All campaign to make the lasting legacy of the upcoming World Cup education for every child.

I’ve wanted to travel to Africa my whole life and when offered the opportunity to listen and learn alongside ONE, it was a once in a lifetime chance that I couldn’t pass up. I’ve always admired the work ONE has done and being able to see the programs you’ve contributed to firsthand was inspiring.

We met African entrepreneurs and academics, spoke with civil society and private sector leaders.  We sat with street vendors at a microfinance project, heard from women now able to save their and their children’s lives through ARV HIV/AIDS treatment. We met some amazing people, a new generation of leaders for not only the continent, but for the world.

My goal in going on this trip was to listen closely and learn more about the fight against global poverty. And what I heard repeatedly was that as I’ve always believed, education has the power to lift individuals, communities and entire nations out of poverty. From a promising business idea to a woman pushing cultural boundaries to stand up and speak out, education has been the key.

Today, 72 million kids are out of school around the world, the majority of them girls.  Without an education, they are almost certain to be trapped in a life of poverty and robbed of the knowledge of their basic human rights.  Every year a child is out of school is a year they lose in literacy, in health, in opportunity.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Since 2000, because people like you and governments took action, 48 million more children are in school.  And if we come together around this World Cup, we can do even more to put education front and center. Together with FIFA, leading players and fans around the world, we can use the power of this truly global game to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. We have a plan, we know how to beat this—all we need now is the will to make it happen.

Increased global education funding fights global poverty at the root, empowers girls and women, and promotes economic growth in poor countries around the world.  And it’s a very smart investment: experts tell us that a girl will earn an additional 10% in income for every year of schooling she receives and be 50% less likely to become infected with HIV/AIDS. In Africa, children of mothers who receive five years of primary education are 40 percent more likely to live beyond the age of 5.  It’s a proactive measure to avert many of the problems that plague developing countries.

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