Over 1 million actions have already been
taken by Global Citizens across India to push leaders to make commitments on
water and sanitation and women empowerment
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The Fourth Action Journey is a chance to join the movement and ask
leaders to commit to positive change in education
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Those who complete the Action Journey on www.globalcitizen.in will be in
with the chance to win FREE tickets to Global Citizen Festival India, to be
held in Mumbai on 19 November
- 5000 free tickets have been won by
Global Citizens in Action Journey 3
One month
since the launch of the Global Citizen initiative, more than one million
actions have been taken by Global Citizens across India as part of the
youth-led movement to eradicate extreme poverty. In three ‘Action Journeys’
young Indians have taken small actions as individuals that combine to a
collective action that moves the needle on the critical issues of water,
sanitation and hygiene (WASH), quality education and gender equality – three of
the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set in place by the UN. These actions
include signing petitions calling on government officials to provide hygienic
sanitation facilities on Indian highways, signing petitions asking United
Nations Secretary General candidates to commit to scaling up efforts to improve
sanitation, as potential future co-conveners of the High Level Panel on Water
and tweeting the importance of consent along stating #nomatlabno.
Close to 400,000 Indian youth have
already taken action through the Global Citizen platform, a social-focused
movement that harnesses the immense power of social media to amplify the voice
of young India to make it heard across government, in private corporations and
non-governmental organisations and among the youth population of the country as
a whole.
Bhavya Bishnoi, Global Citizen India
spokesperson, said, “On average, there is approximately a 20% disparity in
literacy rates between males and females in India, with relatively fewer girls
attending school. This is unacceptable given the transformative effect of
education on a population. India's trajectory of human development and
socioeconomic progress will be significantly expedited once every girl is
offered meaningful educational and professional opportunities. As Global
Citizen India segues into Action Journey 4 on Quality Education, we believe
that the full potential of India's young people can be unlocked only by
encouraging every child to attend school so that s/he can become an informed
decision-maker.”
Now live on www.globalcitizen.in, the
fourth Action Journey focuses on how the next generation will lead India and
pushes for the improvement of the educational system that forms not only the
knowledge but also the values system of Indian children.
The fourth action journey galvanises
individual actions such as tweeting to leaders from Canada, and Australia
urging them to provide funding for polio eradication, #Thumbsupforliteracy
which is to show support for fundamental right to education, to advocate for
the inclusion of pre-schooling and secondary education in the Right to
Education Act, inclusion and quality education for out-of-school children,
fighting against under-nutrition and allocation of budget expenditure on
education state governments.
Thomas Chandy, CEO Save the Children
said, “Education is one of the most critical means of empowerment and
development. We are committed to ensure that every last child gets access to
quality education and improve their chance of surviving and thriving. India has
made tremendous improvements in our education levels and for achieving the Global Goals it is important that no
child is left behind as we move towards 2030. I congratulate the Global Citizen
India for their efforts and I am sure together we will take education to the
last child.”
“We believe that every child should be
in school and learning well. As a country we have made impressive progress
towards ensuring that almost every child is in school. Now we need to focus our
attention on how children can learn well. We welcome initiatives like Global
Citizen that raise awareness and encourage participation of people, especially
young people in helping to make quality education a reality for India’s
children. Every child can learn – come let us work together to make it happen.”
Stated Rukmini Banerji, CEO, Pratham Education Foundation
Ranveer Singh said "India has the
largest youth population on the planet, and will soon have a majority citizenry
of millennials. As such, education is key to our country's progress. Boosting
development in the area of Education is imperative in order to achieve the
Sustainable Development Goals which one hopes will transform not just India but
also the world by 2030."
The Global Citizen Festival India is
being presented by Colors Viacom18 and powered by UPL. The festival, a
collaboration between The Global Education and Leadership Foundation and Global
Citizen, is being hosted in Mumbai by the Government of Maharashtra and
event-produced by Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt Ltd.
The inaugural Global Citizen Festival
India will be held in Mumbai on 19 November 2016, and will feature artists,
business and political leaders from India and across the world who are
committed to the Global Citizen movement to eradicate extreme poverty. The
Global Citizen Festival India will be headlined by Coldplay, JAY Z, Aamir Khan,
Arjun Kapoor, A.R. Rahman, Arijit Singh, Amitabh Bachchan, Ayushmann Khurrana,
Dia Mirza, Farhan Akhtar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Katrina Kaif, Malaika Arora
Khan, Monali Thakur, Parineeti Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Sakshi
Malik, Shah Rukh Khan, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Shraddha Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha and
Vijender Singh.
