Action Week planners have busy stepping up activities so that this years events will take place in all 10 provinces (with the help of the National Teachers' Union ONP) making this year's Action Week a truly nationwide event. The Biggest Lesson, or "A Maior Aula" as it's known in Mozambique, is taking place in a broad cross-section of schools and centres across the country that take in various usually excluded groups such as orphans, the disabled, and adult education groups, of all religious denominations.
The biggest lesson in the country will include the presentation of prizes for excellence in journalism throughout the previous year in the area of Education for All. This is the first year that these prizes will be presented in a joint enterprise of MEPT and UNESCO to involve journalists from television, radio, and the written press in the campaign to reach the Millennium Development Goals. The campaign will also see the launch of various studies commissioned by MEPT into quality and exclusion in education, as well as in-depth study of the FTI mechanism of financing to the education sector.
It promises to be one of the most action-packed and inclusive campaigns so far. Stay tuned for more information!
View MEPTs film about Action Week Activities in Mozambique
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Students in Biggest Lesson ith Vice Minister
Vice Minister and guests during lesson
Students outside biggest lesson in Maputo
What happened in 2007?
Several busy events took place during the week to raise awareness of education rights; these were attended by several officials including the Education Minister, Aires Aly. Top Mozambican musicians were commissioned to write a song on Education for All for which a video was also made. The song and video are being used throughout the year to promote children’s Right to Education in Mozambique.
At the end of the week a detailed report outlining chosen case studies in education was officially presented to the Minister for Education by the Movement for Education for All (MEPT). The report demanded that instant action be taken for the half a million children out of school in Mozambique, and highlighted the cases of some of the most disenfranchised people in the country. In response Mr Aly said the government was committed to expanding the school network.
