Blog # 13: World is failing South Sudan – Brown

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and co-chair of the Global Campaign for Education’s high-level on education launches attack on global community for failure to improve education in the world’s newest country, South Sudan Africa. Brown criticized the "half-measures, hesitation and indifference" that meant that a girl in South Sudan is more likely to die during pregnancy or in childbirth than to make it into secondary education. Prime Minister Brown called for $1.6 billion to be mobilized over the next four years. Prime Minister stated that this would provide better education for 2 million children, half of them currently out of school; give financial support for the schooling of half a million girls; make provision for the education of 300,000 children displaced as a result of armed violence or living in conflict zones; train 30,000 teachers; and build 3,000 schools.

How is this global problem? This is a global problem because 2 million children are out of school and the Millennium develop set by the United Nations haven’t set goals in effort to help South Sudan education. All children deserve a good education. Developed countries need to help these under-developed countries like South Sudan, Africa, so that they are able to provide good quality education for young children in South Sudan. Our main focus should be better our education systems so that all children get the education they need and Gordon Brown expresses his concerns about how to better South Sudan education system. I am glad to see a person like Gordon Brown working toward better the education system.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/18/brown-south-sudan-education?newsfeed=true