20 January 2008
Gordon Brown has announced an aid package of £825 million to help four million Indian children gain access to "the basic right" of schooling.
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Prime Minister:
Every single child in the world should have the right to basic schooling, and that is particularly true for girls, too many of whom in India and elsewhere are denied the basic right to education at the moment.
And that is why today we are putting aside £825 million for the next three years, most of it for health and education, to enable new opportunities to be provided for Indian girls and boys. And I believe over the next few years we will train 300,000 more teachers, we will have 300,000 more classrooms built so that children can go to school and that will mean that 4 million more children in India will have the basic right to schooling that has been denied to children for too long but now should be available as a result of what we are doing.
I am inspired to see how many girls have benefited from literacy, how many girls who lost out at an early stage are now going back to school and getting training and getting jobs in India, but we must give every young child the basic right to education and that is what the £825 million programme is designed to achieve.
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