Country Contacts:
| Name |
Organisation |
Email |
| Justine Bolt |
Oxfam Novib |
Justine.bolt@oxfamnovib.nl |
What's happening in 2008:
On the 23rd April Members of Parliament and Dutch celebrities will be attending the World’s Biggest Lesson highlight event, whilst across the country 450 primary schools will be putting on their own ‘World’s Biggest Lesson’ – brining the expected total of participants to 15,000. Following Action Week, the media will be invited to attend a GCE Netherlands lobbying meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
What happened in 2007?
Hundreds of children JOINED UP and pushed a huge adult-high inflatable globe, as a symbol for Education for All, through the streets of five cities in The Netherlands. In the spring sunshine Princess Laurentien and Minister Koenders for Development Co-operation gave the globe a push towards education. They also received the first edition of a special GCE board game for primary schools, which has been a great success in the country, and will be continued next year. "Reading, writing, arithmetic; everything you learn you stash in your 'school bag'. But 80 million children have a virtually empty school bag, because they are not going to school. Everyone has that Right to an Education" is what Princess Laurentien told the school children at the launch of the Global Education Action Week 2007. Minister Bert Koenders was proud when he saw The Netherlands had climbed from 4th to 1st place on the Global Campaign for Education School Report. He promised to encourage other donor countries to do more for education. After the Global Action Week in The Netherlands the man-high globe travelled to Berlin for the GCE action before the G8.
2008 Report Card PDF
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