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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="colour"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I’d like to ask for your support for our campaign on inclusive education financing.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Next week the
</span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.globalpartnership.org/"><span lang="EN-GB">Global Partnership for Education</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
(GPE) will organise their </span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://replenishment.globalpartnership.org/en/home/"><span lang="EN-GB">Replenishment Conference</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
aiming to reverse the trend of declining aid for education. <span class="colour">
<span style="color:black">This week, we are glad to share that the</span></span> GPE<span class="colour"><span style="color:black">, the biggest global platform of education donors and stakeholders,</span></span> has endorsed
<span class="colour"><span style="color:black">our</span></span> </span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.light-for-the-world.org/call4education"><span lang="EN-GB">Call to Action to Invest in Disability-Inclusive
Education</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.<span class="colour"><span style="color:black"> We hope that this will increase visibility for the urgent issue of financing for disability-inclusive education in the
Global South and lead to more investments to truly achieve SDG4 for all.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In the run-up to the conference next week we want to<span class="colour"><span style="color:black"> further</span></span>
increase the number of signatories of the Call to Action from 150<span class="colour"><span style="color:black"> organisations</span></span> to at least 200.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="colour"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Would
</span></span><span class="colour"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">your organization
</span></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHh_ja8eX5qcWOZQhvtHkzdG-SucKlBjAjo_BB6_EzzV1BHw/viewform"><span lang="EN-GB">sign the Call to Action</span></a></span><span class="colour"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">?
Also, we’d be grateful if you share this information and the call with your partner organisations and networks.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you very much for helping us in advocating for the right to education for tens of millions of girls and boys
who are denied their right to <u>inclusive</u> education and a quality of life that would secure them a decent livelihood.<span class="colour"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ursula
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: #333333">Ursula Miller</span></b></p>
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