Fiona
Bruce delivers Goostrey Community Primary School Campaign to Downing Street
Fiona Bruce
MP delivered a campaign by children at Goostrey Community Primary School to 10
Downing Street. The children had created numerous
colourful drawings of backpacks with messages written on, urging world leaders
to fulfil their promise that all children should get the chance to go to
school. This was part of a wider national initiative - the ‘Send my
Friend to School’ campaign - which seeks to bring together thousands
of children across the UK to speak up for the right to education, and remind
world leaders of their promise that all children should get the chance to go to
school.
Fiona Bruce MP said
“I took the
backpacks
the children so beautifully drew and wrote messages on to 10 Downing Street,
along with a personal letter to the Prime Minister herself, as I wanted to bring the school’s
involvement in the campaign to the attention of the Prime Minister, Theresa May
MP, and relay to her how enthusiastic and concerned these pupils in my
constituency are. Their passionate
engagement with the campaign powerfully highlights how being an active citizen
continues to bring out the best in our young people in local communities and in
the wider world.”
After
hearing about Fiona Bruce MP’s presentation of the campaign by children at
Goostrey Community Primary School to 10 Downing Street, Head Teacher Miss Lyndsey Atkins said
“As Head Teacher I am very proud of the
pupils at Goostrey School and their involvement in this project. They care
greatly about children’s rights and especially their right to an
education. We are pleased that Fiona Bruce has listened to the voice of
our pupils and taken it right to the heart of politics at 10 Downing Street. “
Fiona Bruce
is a member of the House of Commons International Development Select Committee,
who has worked with other MPs on the issue of global education for some time. Education
in the developing world is widely recognised as one of the best of aid
investment and to have wide ranging benefits, giving children not only the opportunity to better their own lives,
but also improve their country more widely. Over the last five years, the UK
has been able to support over 11 million children, including 5.3 million girls,
access primary and lower secondary education, and in their election manifesto,
the Conservative Party pledged to give another 11 million children in developing
countries a decent education by 2020.
Fiona continued
“The
United Kingdom is doing a great deal to help such children through the UK Aid
money we give, and I see this as I travel across the world as part of my role
on the International Development Select Committee. In many countries we are
helping to build schools, pay for desks and write school books in different
languages. This is something we can be very proud of as a nation, though there
is always more that can be done. This is why the ‘Send my Friend to School’
campaign is so important.”
