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Liberia: Letcom to Celebrate Global Action Week
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The Inquirer (Monrovia)
21 April 2008
Posted to the web 21 April 2008
Varney K. Sirleaf
Monrovia
The Liberia Education For All Technical Committee (LETCOM) will celebrate the Global Action Week (GAW) of the Global Campaign on Education (GCE) beginning April 21 to 27, 2008. This year's celebration is being held under the theme "Quality Education For All to End Exclusion In Liberia".
LETCOM was established as an independent Coalition to campaign, lobby, and advocate for the improvement in and increase access to public funded, quality, gender, equitable education for all Liberians.
During the celebration of GAW, various education advocacy and campaign programs and activities are planned to be executed by national education advocacy coalition's world wide.
The most highlighted event or activity for the day is the "Politicians Back To School Day" program which will be held on April 23, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. at the auditorium of the University of Liberia main campus.
On the same day, an easy educable thirty-minute lesson will be taught by an elementary school female student during the program.
This action is practiced in more than 100 countries all over the world where politicians and decision-makers will go back to school and learn more about the importance of Quality Education for All.
Accordingly, the exercise is to make politicians and decision-makers to actively advocate and campaign for sustained improvement in the quality of education for all at the various levels of state authority.
Globally, it is hoped that many people would participate in this program so that history can be made by having the largest simultaneous lesson in history.
Moreover, the attendance at the program would indicate the commitment to the provision of Quality Education in Liberia.
The lesson that would be taught would also look at why it is important for everyone to get good quality education.
Politicians and decision-makers in Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Brazil, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, etc will take part in their respective countries on the same day, April 23, 2008.
Meanwhile, the Conflict Heritage has certainly weighed very heavily on Ellen's discouraging position in the global class. The fact is that the high percentage of almost 62% of children never even made it through to the end of their primary class and the poor performance in primary enrolment are also particularly worrying issues.
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Therefore, in order for quality education for all to be implemented, LETCOM needs the involvement of all Liberians.
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