International organisations such as The Global Campaign for Education and Amnesty International are battling hard for youngsters around the world to receive proper schooling.

Pupils at St Eunan’s Primary have taken this cause to their hearts, recently kickstarting their own campaign titled ‘Education for Every Child Everywhere’.

The school has earned the praises of renowned equality campaigners, ‘The Glasgow Girls’, who gained national recognition 10 years ago for highlighting the poor treatment of asylum seekers in Scotland.

Glasgow Girls members, Amal Azzudin and Roza Salih, recently visited St Eunan’s Primary to learn about the efforts of pupils and hear their speeches on promoting education for all kids worldwide.

Amal spoke of her pride at seeing kids act on their beliefs as she did as a teenager: “It’s really inspiring and empowering to hear their speeches. It was great to see how passionate and strong their beliefs are.

“I remember that was myself and I felt so passionate about our campaign. It’s just amazing, I can see myself in them.

“The pupils understand that we have a lot to be grateful for, and when you think of kids in Africa, it can be taken for granted.

“It’s vital that the students keep campaigning for worldwide education.” The St Eunan’s pupils will be visiting six other schools to deliver their speeches and will also be attending a Human Rights class at The University of Glasgow to promote their campaign.

They intend on contacting their MSP and MP, as well as forming a petition to be delivered to the Scottish Parliament. The petition calls upon wealthy governments to ensure all kids in the world recieve their right to an education.

The Glasgow Girls campaign to stop dawn raids on asylum seekers also reached the Scottish Parliament in 2005, and earned the Scottish campaign of the year title.

Amal Azzudin praised the St Eunan’s pupils for also taking strong action on an important issue, saying: “They’ve started from such a young age and lots of opportunities will come their way.

“They can learn from their campaign and will develop vital skills which — speaking from experience — can help them in their career paths.

“They are so articulate in their speeches and I wish them the best of luck.” St Eunan’s teacher Claire Dunphy explained that the pupils feel passionately about the fact that around 60 million children do not have access to education in the world today.

This inspired them to raise awareness of this issue through their own campaign.

Claire said: “The students find the topic very motivating and engaging, they can see the injustice of it.

“Having the Glasgow Girls in has shown them the difference they can make not just locally, but nationally.

“They have also been studying people like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, and have done a lot of the research for the campaign by themselves.

“We will definitely be continuing to promote the campaign. We are a Rights Respecting School which is a UNICEF award, this means we teach and promote all the different rights, but we will continue to promote the campaign.”