Sarah Brown

Theirworld is a global children’s charity committed to ending the global education crisis and unleashing the potential of the next generation. What’s the global education crisis? Around the world, more than 260 million children are out of school and on current trends, more than one out of every two young people will be on track to have the most fundamental skills by 2030. Too often, children are deprived of a healthy start to life, quality and inclusive early childhood development, and left behind because they are a girl, refugee, minority or have a disability. Our mission is to ensure that every child has the best start in life, a safe place to learn, and skills for the future. We achieve our mission by combining the power of campaigning, policy, and innovative projects, to create change from the top-down and bottom-up. We anticipate, target, and solve the complex barriers keeping children and youth from education and opportunity. Informed by breakthrough research and activated by our influential network of next generation partners, we work with youth, governments, businesses, NGOS and campaigners to develop and deploy solutions to unleash the potential of the next generation.

Steering the first co-ordinated effort to work with private sector CEOs and foundation directors to expand and deliver sustainable means of private sector engagement alongside government and civil society to bring education to 58 million children who otherwise miss out. Founding members of the Coalition include the Chairman/CEOs of Tata, Grupo Carso, Dangote Industries, Econet Wireless, McKinsey, Accenture, Discovery, Pearson, Western Union and Reed Smith. The Coalition’s Tech4Ed series convenes those leading innovation in education, with organisations such Coursera, the Khan Academy, Google, Udacity, Econet Wireless, Pearson, Dropbox, Chime for Change, Intel, the Carlos Slim Foundation, Change.org and HP taking part in events at Twitter and Facebook headquarters.