Provide education for all world's kids
The first Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients of the Obama administration were honored this month. Three of these "agents of change" honored by the president - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and Muhammad Yunus - have called for the creation of a Global Fund for Education to ensure every child has a chance to go to school.
Seventy-five million children are still not in school in the world's poorest countries. Over half are girls, and some 40 million are in countries affected by war or conflict.
President Obama should walk the walk as well as talk the talk, listen to the moral leaders he has honored, and follow through on his campaign commitment to create and fund a Global Fund for Education.
Elisabeth Corcoran
Elburn
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