| | |  April 25: US$87.7 million allocated from the Catalytic Fund to Madagascar and Sao Tome & Principe. Total allocations from the CF now reach US$1,070 to 27 countries. April 21-27: the World's biggest lesson breaks record by mobilizing over 7.5 million people around the World
The GCE event drew the largest participation in Bangladesh, Vietnam and in the Palestinian territories.
April 23: 18 million out-of-school children can be sent to class for US$1 a week - Press release from Tokyo meetings
April 21: Haiti joins FTI
April 12: FTI hosts briefing for African Finance Ministers Around 50 officials from sub-Saharan African ministries of finance and central banks, including several ministers of finance, gathered during the recent World Bank – International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings to discuss EFA-FTI in Africa. More
March 27: France and Britain commit to 16 million new school places in Africa
The British Prime Minister and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have promised new support to provide school places for 16 million children in Africa by 2010. Highlighting the lack of schooling for 33 million children as "one of the great challenges" in Africa, the British Prime Minister said that the UK and France will "pool their resources" and each provide eight million school places through funding for new schools and teachers.
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