Today, 72 million children around the world are denied the opportunity to go to school.
These children could be the next generation’s leaders, sport stars, doctors and teachers. But without an education they are confined to a life of poverty. They’re ready to do their homework – but school fees, conflict, working in factories and farms, losing their parents to sickness, the cost of a school uniform or sometimes simply being a girl keeps them from being able to attend school. Whatever their background – orphans, refugees, poor, disabled, child soldiers, child labourers, from disadvantaged backgrounds – the result is the same – denied the chance to learn they will never be able to fulfil their potential.