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Notre Dame Virtual School
 ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
All human beings should have the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately, too many children in the world today grow up without this chance, because they are denied their basic right even to attend primary school. A sustainable end to world poverty as we know it, as well as the path to peace and security, requires that citizens in every country are empowered to make positive choices and provide for themselves and their families. (Adapted from: EndPoverty 2015)
WEBSITES (Excerpts from the websites appear below)
As a UN organization, UNICEF is the only inter-governmental agency devoted exclusively to children and is mandated by the world’s governments to promote and protect children’s rights and their well being. Along with other UN agencies and global partners, UNICEF has taken the Goals as part of its mandate. From working with local policymakers toward health care and education reform to delivering vaccines, each UNICEF action is a step toward a Millennium Development Goal.
Target by 2015: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling. As of 2001, it is estimated that around 115 million children of primary school age, the majority of them girls, do not attend school.
UNICEF is committed to changing the world for children. It strives to protect their rights, improve their health, and nurture their development through sound planning and monitoring of policy results. This UNICEF site provides a great deal of data and statistical information about the situation of women and children around the world.
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It is made up of two unique development institutions owned by 185 members countries—the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association.
Since 1990 the world has called for all children to be able to complete primary school. To reach universal primary education by 2015, school systems with low completion rates will need to start now to train teachers, build classrooms, and improve the quality of education. This site explores possibilities for achieving universal primary education.
PROJECTS
The United Nations' Cyberschoolbus is a website about global issues and the UN, for students ages 5-18 and their teachers. The portal outside link is useful collection of online education program links, school networks, primary, secondary and higher education.
The internationally agreed framework of 8 goals and 18 targets was complemented by 48 technical indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Each indicator is linked to millennium data series as well as to background series related to the target in question. Students can monitor the progress of the goals on this site.
SND EDUCATION PROJECT
The Sisters of Notre Dame from across the congregation have constructed a prayer-study-action program. Each section includes references to sources, websites, and further information about the goal and what others around the world are doing to reach it.
The pdf file on MDG #2 can be found in this Unit.
READINGS
Every girl and boy has the right to a good education, but today more than 115 million miss out. Find out more by clicking on this article.
http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/education/explore_165.html “Education is central to children’s rights.”
When you are educated, you are likely to be more aware of your rights and better able to make sure those rights are respected. You will be better equipped to influence what happens to you while you are young and when you are older. Education gives you choices--and confidence to take advantage of those choices.
This website explores Real Life Stores; Girl Talk; Star Talk; Brain Teasers, Photos Journals, and more.
Better education is fundamental to the prospects for economic and social development and the end of world poverty. Toward Universal Primary Education offers a rigorous set of interventions that countries can choose from to help provide universal access to high quality education by focusing on hard-to-reach groups of people, educating girls and women to break the cycle of low education and strengthening educational opportunities for adolescents.
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