In an extra-ordinary presentation at the United Nations in New York last Wednesday, 27 year-old Sierra Leonean born Chernor Bah vowed to hold the United Nations and other world leaders accountable should they fail to deliver quality education to young people of the 21st century.
Addressing the world leaders including South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, Ahmid Karzai of Afghanistan, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San SuuKyi, and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the launching of the latter's Global Initiative on Education, Bah - who was recently appointed to serve in its steering committee on behalf of the young people of the world - said, "thousands of my friends, younger siblings, and millions more around the world (a whopping 61 million) are out of school. That is not right."
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