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GAW Follow-up: Get Your BIG READ Bookmarks Now!


About this event: Global Action Week
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I hope that you’ve had a great Global Action Week and that you
celebrated with a BIG READ event in support of the Education for All
campaign.

I have 4 quick, follow-up requests:

1) GET BIG READ CERTIFICATES & BOOKMARKS FOR YOUR PARTICIPANTS:
Upon receipt of your Validation Form (see 2) below), we will send you:

a) A Colour BIG READ Certificate to thank you for your participation
in the event.
b) Colour bookmarks for all of your confirmed BIG READ participants
(produced in cooperation with the Canadian Teachers' Federation).


2) SEND US YOUR BIG READ VALIDATION & PETITION FORMS:
We are interested to hear about what you did for the BIG READ.

Please send us your

a) VALIDATION FORMS to share what you did for Global Action Week.
b) PETITIONS so we can share these with the Minister for International
Cooperation.

Both forms were included in the BIG READ School Pack, but you can also
find it @
http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/gawfiles/BRValidationFormPetition.doc (English) / http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/gawfiles/GL-FormulairedevalidationP%E9tition.doc
(French)

You can send them either by
+ email to info@cgce.ca ,
+ fax to +1 613 232 7435, or
+ mail: CGCE, 321 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7Z2. by May 11.


3) SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION:
It is not too late to sign our Make Poverty History petition asking
your Member of Parliament to support Education for All. You can find
it at
http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/en/g8/education-for-all/takeaction
(English) / http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/fr/g8/education/agissez
(French).


4) CELEBRATE YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN A WORLDWIDE EVENT!
You have been part of a truly amazing, worldwide event. Over 10
million students, teachers and activists and many celebrities have
taken part in Global Action Week 2009. Here are a few links that you
can share with your students:

a) The Global Campaign for Education also has an online petition. You
can add your name to the millions who have signed on to the BIG READ @
http://action.campaignforeducation.org/o/11001/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1 (English) / http://action.campaignforeducation.org/o/11001/t/32/l/fre/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1
(French).


b) For a list of BIG READ Highlights from other countries, please see:
http://www.campaignforeducation.org/bigread/en/countries.php


c) For a selection of the worldwide media coverage, please see:
http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&ned=ca&hl=en&q="Global+Action+Week"


We’ll be posting a report on the worldwide Global Action Week
activities in a few weeks, so stay tuned.

Thanks very much.

Dwayne


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