Magazine - ESHA

C O L U M N T O N D U I F
Dear ESHA friends and members,
Hope that this column fi nds you all in good
health after the summer holiday.
Day by day, we all feel ourselves commit-
ted to our work; organising the best education for all children. In
the European countries, all children have the right to go to school,
and most children will have good education. Being educated is an
important condition to be successful in society. Without education
you’re not able to join the 21th century.
Unfortunately millions of kids in the world have no access to educa-
tion at all for several reasons: there are no schools, education is
too expensive, they have to work for their parents to complete the
family income etc. etc. In 2000 the United Nations have set the
millennium goals. An important millennium goal is that in 2015 all
children in the world will have completed primary education! The
last fi gures of the United Nations, show that 80 million children have
no access to education at all.
Educators all over the world should be advocates for these children.
They have to be in our schools, if they’re not in, how can we educate
them? If governments do not provide schools with suffi cient assets,
how can we do our job? If we use all world (energy) resources,
if we cannot stop polluting the environment, if we leave the next
generation our huge fi nancial debts, why can’t we give them the
knowledge and tools to solve these problems in the (near) future.
4 ESHA MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2011