Assembly (for ages 7-14)

How many children around the world are missing out on school?

24 million

45 million

57 million

How many children who are missing out on school have a disability?

4 million

11 million

24 millionLucy , aged eleven lives in Kenya. She has polio which affects her right leg.

Photo: Arjun Kohli/Arete Stories/ ActionAid

Tasui lives in Nigeria. He is fifteen and contracted polio when he was two. He campaigns for children to go to school..

Photo: Kate Holt/Shoot the Earth/ ActionAid

Tasui helping his family at home in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Photo: Kate Holt/Shoot the Earth/ ActionAid

Ade talking to pupils at Southern Road Primary School in East London.

Photo: Garry Crompton/Southern Road Primary School

Ade and pupils joining the Send All My Friends to School campaign.

Photo: Garry Crompton/Southern Road Primary School

In the year 2000 there were 114 million children out of school ….

Today, the number of children out of school has halved. But, 57 million children are still missing out.

1 in 3 of these children have a disability.

Linh, aged seven lives in Vietnam. She is being carried by her mum to school. Linh has a paralysed leg.

Photo: Oxfam

Difasi, aged eight lives in Uganda. He has been blind since birth. He doesn’t go to school because there are no teaching materials for him.

Photo: Georgina Cranston/SightSavers

Borsha, aged nine lives in Bangladesh. She is blind but goes to school because her teachers are trained to support blind children.

Photo: Georgina Cranston/Sightsavers

Circles of influence

Lynne Featherstone, MP visiting Rhodes Avenue Primary School in 2013.

Photo: Richard Baker/Oxfam

Campaigner, Emma speaking to MPs at the House of Commons in 2013.

Photo: Mark Chilvers/ActionAid

Campaigner Navdeep speaking at Malala Day at the House of Commons in July, 2013.

Photo: Mark Chilvers/ActionAid

Children from two Welsh school meeting the Prime Minister at Downing Street in 2013.