1. Visit the United Nations website on the MDGs especially for kids. It has posters, brochures, interactive maps and a site where you can send in how you feel about the MDGs. They'll post your thoughts for everyone to read! Kids from all around the world have added their thoughts and you can add yours too! Learn more about what you can do to ensure all kids get to go to school. http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/mdgs/goal2.asp#

2. Find out how to start an awareness campaign or hold a fundraiser with your school or activity group, maybe with your neighbors or just on your own. http://www.unicef.org/voy/takeaction/takeaction_97.html

3. Get involved with UNICEF. They want to hear from kids like you. http://www.unicef.org/voy/takeaction/takeaction_2334.html

4. Hold a school supplies drive collecting books and other school materials to send to schools in need. http://www.unicef.org/supply/index_education.html

WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T GO TO SCHOOL?

School prepares you for what you will become when you are an adult. School offers you the chance to learn about so many different things; from science and art to history and math.

School is also a place where you learn to build relationships and self-esteem through your accomplishments and friendships.  Many children around the world will never get that chance.

Sometimes children can't go to school because they live too far out in a rural area or they have no transportation to get to school. 

 Many schools in poorer countries, sometimes called developing countries, charge fees to attend school. Many families can't afford to pay these fees and so the kids can't go to school.

Sometimes children have to stay home and help their parents work the land or worse; stay home and care for their parents who are dying from preventable diseases.

If you could not go to school imagine what would happen to you. 

What would happen when you grow up? You probably wouldn't know how to read or write or maybe even make change at the grocery store.

Your future would be very different if you could not go to school.  How would you take care of yourself?

For more than 115 million children in the world these are questions that they worry about because they can't go to school.

 More than 115 million children will never have the chance to become a doctor, a teacher, an airplane pilot or scientist.