Teenage activist wants more money for children's education
Source: AP
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai wants world leaders to spend more money, on top of their earlier promises, to secure 12 years of free primary and secondary education for all children across the world.
The Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban in October 2012 for asserting her right to an education says she will continue her fight for children's right to education and ask world leaders to invest an additional $39 billion annually.
"We will not stop. We will continue to speak out and raise our voices until we see every child in school," she said ahead of an education summit in Oslo, Norway, attended by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, among others.
An estimated 58 million children aren't going to school. While aid for basic education had doubled from 2002 to 2009, it has since stagnated and fallen in recent years, according to a summit paper. Even though many countries have increased their national budget allocations, progress in getting more children to school has stalled.
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