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Since July 2005, the Philippine Government has not appointed a Secretary for the Department of Education leaving it without set leadership for almost a year.
(as of 1 June 2006)

Only 1.3% of the Philippine budget goes to health

33% of our country's budget goes straight to debt

Only 15% of our budget goes to Education

10- 20% of our budget is unaccounted for

32% goes to government salaries.

In our world today:

115 million school-aged children are not in school

56 percent of them girls

94 percent of them in developing countries

33 million young people cannot read or write

Only 37 of 155 developing countries have achieved universal primary school completion

But it doesn't have to be that way anymore.

The world now has the financial resources and know-how to end extreme poverty. All that is lacking is the political will to change the status quo.

Educate to end poverty!

Source: Social Watch Philippines MDG report and Millennium Campaign website.