During 4-6 November
2014 , Qatar Foundation host its 5th World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE in Doha, Qatar and attended by more than 1500
delegates from multi-sectoral base, which gathers individuals from all fields of
the public and private sectors, who together harness their expertise in order
to share solutions to the challenges facing education today and tomorrow.
The WISE Summit aims to explore groundbreaking innovations and take
concrete steps to make significant improvements to worldwide
education.
The annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier
international platform dedicated to innovation
and creative action in education where top decision-makers
share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink
education.
Two of our
Global Youth Ambassadors got an opportunity to take part in the summit and
represent the #UpForSchool Campaign, where Our Ambassador from Yemen Mr. Sadam Al-Adwar has organized a Meet-Up Session during the
summit with our Ambassador from Pakistan Mr. Qasir Rafiq .
Global Youth Ambassadors from Yemen and Pakistan at WISE Summit 2014 in Doha
The meet-up
Session took part for 45 minutes at the Qatar
National Convention Centre (QNCC) in the Majlis area, during Summit hours on the 5th of November and attended by 20
participants in the summit .
The participants in the meet up session addressed
the right of children to go to school, as 58 million children are not in
school. and the role of young people in How can we get
58 million children to schools before the end of 2015 .
The discussion leaded by Sadam Al-Adwar , and
at the End Mr. Qasir Rafiq read the #UpForSchool Petition in front all of them
and invite them to sign it .
There was great
interaction between the participants, who came from different countries to
share their Ideas and give their potential solutions to improving education and
to get 58 million children into schools and learning .
We also talked
about A World At School, Millennium Development Goal 2 and what we do. we then
told them about the #UpForSchool Petition. The support we received was enormous.
Even after we
finished the discussion, some Participants had started asking me more
information about our roles as Ambassadors and how can they get part and take
actions with us and expressed support for A World at School.
Group photo with the participants after the signing the Petition in Doha
The
meet-up session attended by Dr. Justin W. Fleet , the Chief of Staff at the United
Nation Special Envoy for Global Education office .
It was a pleasure for all of us to have him with us and hear from him about their work and efforts to achieve the goal of getting more than 58 million children into school before 2015.
It was a pleasure for all of us to have him with us and hear from him about their work and efforts to achieve the goal of getting more than 58 million children into school before 2015.
Dr. Justin W. Fleet , the Chief of Staff at the United Nation Special Envoy for Global Education
