IDDC

Leonard Cheshire Disability Supporting 1Goal

IDDC Member, Leonard Cheshire Disability was featured on the website for 1Goal, www.join1Goal.com, on 27 May. 1Goal, a campaign by the Global Campaign for Education based around the 2010 FIFA World Cup, uses the power of football to promote the message that all children deserve an education and to make this message part of the World Cup’s impact.

Through 1Goal, over eight million footballers, fans, organisations, companies and individuals call on world leaders to make education a reality for the 72 million children, a third of whom have disabilities, who are currently out of school around the world.

Leonard Cheshire Disability chose this date to launch their new Young Voices campaigning website for young people with disabilities in 19 countries: www.LCDisability.org/youngvoices. The site includes films, radio broadcasts and audio pieces relating to young people’s experiences of disability, development and the promise of the UNCRPD.

Young Voices groups around the world have also campaigned actively for 1Goal. Including:

• Gained press coverage, including newspaper and radio interviews in Liberia, Kenya, India, Sierra Leone, Uganda and South Sudan
• MTV Sri Lanka made and broadcast a special programme about Young Voices and 1Goal
• Held rallies and conferences in Liberia and Sierra Leone
• Children with and without disabilities will give a “yellow card” to the South African president at an education summit that coincides with the World Cup to warn him of the need for quality education for all children

Campaigns will be ongoing right up until the World Cup itself.