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What happened in Action Week 2008?
In Thailand, poverty and marginalisation are major causes of exclusion from education. Children living in rural communities and in urban slums often have limited access to education and tend to begin school late. While primary education is mostly "free" and compulsory in most countries in the region, hidden costs remain, which are especially difficult to meet for poor families. So UNESCO organised activities to highlight the issues of quality and inclusion. Sheldon Shaeffer, Director of UNESCO Bangkok, published an article in the Nation, a leading English-language newspaper in Thailand. The East Asia and Pacific Regional - United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) issued a formal message on the Action Week and the Regional Asia-Pacific EFA website also published articles on GCE's World's Biggest Lesson.
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What happened in Action Week 2007?
Thai law stipulates free, quality compulsory education for all, yet this is not yet a reality. In want of enforcement of the law, nearly one thousand paper chains were made by children during the JOIN UP rally in Thailand. The rally started with the Seas Gypsy communities in Phang Nga. Many in the community have suffered from social stigma from not being educated until new schools were built after the 2005 tsunami. Yet children still feel marginalised. One girl’s message on the chain read: “I want the teachers to be kind to us”. In Bangkok children joined a massive JOIN UP rally at the Thailand Knowledge and Santichaiprakran Parks where they expressed their views for better education, good books, clean schools and good grades. All the paper chains were collected and delivered to the Prime Minister during the start of a new school year in mid-May – giving him strict homework to keep the government’s promise on Education Rights.
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