Launch Of Steve Sinnott Foundation
EDM number 557 in 2009-10, proposed by Jacqui Smith on 11/01/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Charities and International development.
That this House welcomes the cross-party support at the launch in Parliament on 1 December 2009 of the Steve Sinnott Foundation, a charity set up to promote the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 2 of universal primary education for all by 2015; notes that the Foundation will work with teachers worldwide to set up a global online community through which they can share knowledge and experience and help secure a primary education for the 75 million children who are denied the opportunity to attend school; and further notes that the work of the Foundation will continue the work and commitment of Steve Sinnott, the late General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, who was passionate about the cause of primary education for all.
This motion has been signed by a total of 83 MPs.
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