SILVER SPRING, MD (March 11, 2020)<\/strong> \u2013 With a goal of one million signed petitions, the Every Child Everywhere In School campaign<\/a> has surpassed its half-way mark, reaching more than 556,000 signatures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ted Wilson, president\nof the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and Michael Kruger, president for the\nAdventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), shared sentiments about the\nrecent milestone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHalf a million\nsignatures is a testament as a global Christian family that every boy and girl worldwide\ndeserve access to education. Jesus cares about these precious boys and girls\nand we as his followers must follow his lead. We have an important\nresponsibility to help these children\u2014so let\u2019s continue to stand together to\nshow support for education so we can have every child everywhere in school,\u201d\nsays Wilson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are really\nencouraged by the tremendous support the campaign has received so far. But we\ncan\u2019t stop here,\u201d Kruger says. \u201cEvery time children go to school, we are\npreparing them for life, endowing them with the power to think and do, and\ntraining them to better serve humanity. If those privileges are taken from\nthem, they will continue to be forced to work long hours, live in war zones, or\npushed into marriage at a young age. Simply put, education can change their\nlives. By showing our support, we are showing the world we care for every boy\nand girl\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the campaign\u2019s kick-off in October 2019, under the leadership of the Adventist Church and ADRA, supporters from more than 220 countries have shown their support by signing the petition at ADRA.org\/InSchool<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n West Africa Leads in\nSign-Ups<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the West-Central\nAfrica Division (WAD), which has the highest signature count so far, young\npeople in the Ivory Coast took to the streets for several weeks to reach out to\nuniversity students and community members to gain support for the campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “During our\nweeklong efforts, we received an overwhelming response of appreciation for the\ncampaign\u2019s mission with willing participants to sign-up,\u201d says Kossi\nDodzi Emmanuel, associate regional director and regional liaison for the\nAdventist Development and Relief Agency in the WAD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries in the WAD\nsuch as Chad, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania are considered among the poorest\ncountries in Africa, and education is not easily accessible nor available for\ncountless boys and girls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, with\neducation projects implemented by ADRA, countries, like Mali, are seeing the\nbenefits of learning. Families, who lacked the opportunity or resources to go\nto school, are now able to send their children to classes because of programs\nADRA is implementing and can now fully grasp the importance of their child\nearning an education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Divisions Get\nInvolved <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The East-Central\nAfrica Division recently celebrated its \u201cMission Extravaganza,\u201d a large event which\noccurs every five years. This year, the event occurred in the capital city of\nKampala, Uganda at the Mandela National Stadium from February 12 to March 1\nwhere thousands of church members attended to join in the special weeklong\noccasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis was a great opportunity for ADRA to promote the education campaign with all the masses at the stadium,\u201d says Joshua Safari Muhumuza, communication and marketing manager for ADRA Africa Regional Office in Kenya. \u201cThe Africa Regional Office, in conjunction with ADRA in Uganda, strategized to garner as many signatures in the shortest time possible. This included collaborating with the Adventist youth department to mobilize Pathfinders and senior youth to collect signatures through paper petitions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the\ncelebration at the stadium, ADRA also had a booth for people to sign-up. \u201cWe\nwere surprised at how many people flocked our table to sign the petition,\u201d Muhumuza\nsays. More efforts to aid with sign-ups are underway he adds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The momentum for the\neducation-focused campaign has also caught on in other countries. Nigeria has\norganized petition sign-ups in various communities. In the South Pacific region,\ncountries like Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea are\nmaking headway to gather petitions with local churches, schools, and\ncommunities, especially during the upcoming Global Youth Day on March 21.\nAdditionally, the South American Division is conducting a major push through\ntelevision and digital platforms in support of the global education\ncampaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Push for\nEducation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At the core of ADRA\u2019s\nglobal humanitarian efforts is community development, which involves empowering\nindividuals and groups of people and providing them with the necessary skills\nto effect change in their own communities. For this campaign, education\nhas been the focus for the Adventist Church and ADRA due to the staggering\nstatistics of children affected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently, there are\n264 million children around the world who are out of school, based on a\n2017-2018 report by UNESCO. Also, 90 percent of children with disabilities in\nthe developing world are not in school and that displaced children are five\ntimes more likely to be out of school than their non-displaced peers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To learn more about the Every Child Everywhere In School campaign and sign the petition, go to ADRA.org\/InSchool<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n POUR CHAQUE ENFANT PARTOUT DANS L'\u00c9COLE<\/strong> L'\u00c9GLISE ADVENTISTE DU SEPTI\u00c8ME JOUR<\/strong> A PROPOS DE L'ADRA<\/strong> With a goal of one million signed petitions, the Every Child Everywhere In School campaign has surpassed its half-way mark, reaching more than 556,000 signatures.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[594,786],"tags":[741,1136,1131,1092,1125,1124,74,1111],"class_list":["post-17433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-global","tag-adventist-church","tag-every-child-everywhere-in-school","tag-gc-president","tag-general-conference-gc","tag-michael-kruger","tag-ted-wilson","tag-unesco","tag-west-central-africa-division-wad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46490,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions\/46490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/adra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2209-1024x683.jpg\")
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Every Child Everywhere in School est un mouvement mondial dirig\u00e9 par des adventistes qui vise \u00e0 ce que chaque enfant, partout dans le monde, aille \u00e0 l'\u00e9cole, ait acc\u00e8s \u00e0 un enseignement primaire et secondaire gratuit, \u00e9quitable et de qualit\u00e9, et ach\u00e8ve sa scolarit\u00e9 afin de pouvoir r\u00e9aliser le potentiel que Dieu lui a donn\u00e9. Pour en savoir plus ADRA.org\/InSchool<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L'\u00c9glise adventiste du septi\u00e8me jour est une confession chr\u00e9tienne protestante qui se distingue par l'observation du samedi, le septi\u00e8me jour de la semaine dans les calendriers chr\u00e9tien et juif, en tant que sabbat, et par l'accent mis sur l'imminence de la seconde venue (l'av\u00e8nement) de J\u00e9sus-Christ. L'\u00c9glise mondiale est dirig\u00e9e par une Conf\u00e9rence g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et des r\u00e9gions plus petites administr\u00e9es par des divisions, des conf\u00e9rences d'union et des conf\u00e9rences locales. Elle compte actuellement plus de 20 millions de membres baptis\u00e9s et 25 millions d'adh\u00e9rents. Pour en savoir plus https:\/\/www.adventist.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
L'Agence adventiste de d\u00e9veloppement et de secours est le bras humanitaire international de l'\u00c9glise adventiste du septi\u00e8me jour. Son travail permet de renforcer les communaut\u00e9s et de changer des vies dans le monde entier en fournissant un d\u00e9veloppement communautaire durable et des secours en cas de catastrophe. Pour plus d'informations, visitez le site ADRA.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"