New Deer Primary School And Whitehills Primary School And The Ethco Challenge 2011

EDM number 1991 in 2010-12, proposed by Eilidh Whiteford on 23/06/2011.
Categorised under the topics of Education and Schools.

That this House congratulates the pupils of New Deer Primary School and Whitehills Primary School on winning the EthCo Challenge 2011 to promote understanding of the Millennium Development Goals; notes that 67 million children worldwide, a majority of them girls, are missing primary school education; recognises the crucial importance of education in tackling the causes of global poverty and inequality; and calls on the Government to make education central to its international development strategy and improve educational opportunities for girls.

This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.