In 2008 representatives for Campana Global Educativa( Global Campaign for Education), meet with U.S. congress to ask to endorse to endorse bipartisan legislation that would help pay for education for the 72 million children worldwide that are not receiving primary education. The legislation asked that aid given to these countries to be raised to $3 billion from $465 million.
In an interview with CNN Espanol, Shakira, a Colombian and world known singer/philanthropist said that $ 3 million dollars was the amount needed to give an education to the estimated 72 million children in Latin America that did not currently receive primary education by 2012.
Here is the link to that video, and following is one of the singer speaking to CNN (in English)
shakira speaking of the Global Campaign for Education in spanish.
This is Shakira also speaking of the same cause in English.
The legislation, Education for All Act was introduced in 2007 by then senators Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) as well as Reps. Nita Lowry (D-N.Y.) and Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.).
to learn more on this act visit http://www.campaignforeducationusa.org/efa2007summary
According to govtrack.us the bill was never became a law.
despite this many advances have been made since 2008.
According to a April 2009 news release on one.org, Rep. Nita Lowry said that U.S. funding for basic education, as well as President Barack Obama’s commitment of a $ 2billioncontribution to a Global Education Fund. http://www.one.org/blog/category/us-legislation/educational-for-all-act/
GCE and the One campaign havent given up on this bill.
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