Raise A Hand For Education

With the help of MDGs(Millennium Development Goals) the world committed to achieve the universal primary education(UPE) by 2015. There has been a great progress since 2000, 46.5 million children in sub-Saharan Africa went to school for the first time between 1999 and 2008.
The Global Partnership for Education use their funds to support the developing countries' national education plans. They hosted their first replenishment on November 7-8, 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
57 Pledges were made in total constituting a initial commitment of $1.5 billion. As partnership will continue their replenishment efforts during this period, raising and addition $1 billion before 2014 in order to send 25 million children to school. In addition to pledges from new donors, a dozen donors committed to predictable, multi-year contributions. The Global Partnership will also enroll 50 million new textbooks in classrooms and train 600,000 new teachers in partner countries over the next three years.
Five leading donors France, European Commission, Germany, Australia and United Kingdom committed to significant increases in bilateral support to education, ensuring their leadership in education assistance.
United Kingdom with pledging $352 million continued its leadership within the Global Partnership, for the period 2011-2014.
Australia pledged $278 million
France pledged $65 million
Canada $57 million
European Union $53 million
Germany $21 million