education

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – Darussalam) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, a keen advocate of promoting universal access to quality education, was accompanied by the princess of Brunei for a visit to the Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah (YSHHB) School, Wednesday, where the Queen toured the state of the art facility.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – Amman) Building on the success of last year’s Teacher’s Award, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah joined teachers from across Jordan to celebrate their commitment to education.

During the award ceremony, Queen Rania distributed the second annual award for excellence in teaching and thanked all the finalists for “enlightening the minds of successive generations.”

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Barbara Walters (BW): Our next guest is a children’s author, who car pools, and who bakes cookies, and tweets. By the way she also happens to be royalty. It is our pleasure and honour to welcome Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan. Also with respects to other Queens the most beautiful.

HMQ: Oh thank you. That’s very kind of you Barbara.

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Well I do feel that last year I think people were really in crisis mode, the financial crisis was still very new in peoples minds and people I think felt a little defeated, this year I felt people having reflected over the crisis are thinking more how can we fix things how can we move forward, how can we reset and redesign things so were talking more about a global redesign atmosphere.

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Eight years ago, with an eye to our own future and a belief that this could be the moment humanity would begin to redeem itself, we made a promise to the world and to ourselves -- to reduce child mortality… halve poverty… eradicate inequality.                                                        

And from food… to clean water… to immunizations… to education… our progress toward the Millennium Development Goals has given hundreds of millions of people a chance to live a better life. 

Thank you, Nita for those kind words.

And a special hello to the fourth graders of Ben Goldberg’s Rock Creek Valley Elementary school who join us today. They’re here to support the launch of the Big Read, because they know how important going to school is… and what a difference it can make in the life of a young person. Thank you for coming.

I’d like to tell you about a group of extraordinary children I met in a Johannesburg library during my trip to South Africa last month.

Thank you, Marian, for your warm words, … for your wise words… and for your inspiring words to us all just now. 

When I opened this conference, I spoke about the challenge ahead of us – one that we must all jointly embrace – to set in motion a "reverse domino effect" where every woman lifts another up and passes the gift of strength on. 

This morning, though you may not know it, I think you all look taller and stronger than when we started…

One woman who is looking particularly tall and strong is Maha.