Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling (2015)

• One in four adults in the developing world – 872 million people – is illiterate. (Oxfam UK – Education Now Campaign)
• More than 100 million children remain out of school. (Source:UNFPA)
• 46% of girls in the world’s poorest countries have no access to primary education. (Source:ActionAid)
• More than 1 in 4 adults cannot read or write: 2/3 are women. (Source:ActionAid)
• Universal primary education would cost $10 billion a year – that’s half what Americans spend on ice cream. (Source:ActionAid)
• Young people who have completed primary education are less than half as likely to contract HIV as those missing an education. Universal primary education would prevent 700,000 cases of HIV each year – about 30% all new infections in this age group. (Source:GCAP)

2. Global Campaign for Education has a Singapore rep, Ranjini Sri Mei Hua.

3. Eunice Olsen and MP Ong Kian Min just set up the KIDS Foundation (Knowledge in Developing Societies).