PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s president is taking fellow leaders to the World Cup final, but first read them a lesson.
At an education summit he held in the capital hours before the Dutch-Spanish final Sunday, Jacob Zuma urged African leaders to ensure parents don’t have to pay school fees or buy uniforms, factors that keep children out of school. He also urged leaders from developed countries to honor pledges to support education in poor countries.
The summit is the culmination of 1GOAL, a campaign supported by football’s governing body to use the attention the World Cup commands to publicize the need to get more children into school. An estimated 72 million children aren’t in school and millions more do not have access to quality education, according to 1GOAL.
