Kevin Rudd

You can't write your own name or that of your child.

You started work, not at 16, 18 or 21, but at 5.

You earn so little – even after years of toil – that your own daughter, too, must work…

And so the cycle begins.

Millions of adults live this reality – 774 million… all illiterate … most of them women.

Millions of children will join them – 75 million … none with a day's schooling … most of them girls.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - New York) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah joined the Prime Ministers Gordon Brown, of the UK, and Kevin Rudd, of Australia, as well as other global leaders at the "Class of 2015: Education For All" pledging summit, in New York, Thursday to urge world leaders to refocus their commitments for universal access to primary education. At the event, a coalition of governments, charities and U.N. agencies pledged $4.5 billion to support efforts to get all the world's children in school by 2015.