00:00Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Italy is proud to co-host this campaign together with Nigeria.
00:06I thank President Tenubu for his partnership and his leadership.
00:10This joint work reflects a conviction that Italy shares deeply.
00:15Development cannot be imposed from outside. It must be built together.
00:20This is the spirit of the MATEI Plan, the strategy through which Italy has chosen to reshape its partnership with
00:26Africa.
00:27Cooperation between equals, grounded in mutual respect, shared responsibility and concrete results, not promises that are never kept.
00:38And at the heart of this partnership stands one conviction.
00:42Nothing can truly be achieved for Africa's future if we do not first invest in its people.
00:49Africa is not a continent to be held. It is a continent of extraordinary talent, energy and hope.
00:56A young continent looking to the future with confidence.
01:00Its greatest wealth is not beneath the ground. It is in its children.
01:06Every young person who is denied that education is a talent the world will never know, a future that will
01:13never be written.
01:14This is why we believe every child has the right to learn, to grow and to build a life at
01:20home.
01:20The right not to be forced to leave everything behind in search of a future that should have been possible
01:27where they were born.
01:29Education is not a side chapter of development.
01:32It is the foundation upon which every other ambition is built.
01:36Jobs, dignity, prosperity.
01:38Maria Montessori, one of the most famous educators of all time, thought the world's something we should never forget.
01:47The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.
01:51That hope and that promise are exactly what is at stake today.
01:55This is why Italy believes so strongly in the global partnership for education.
02:00GPE brings partners together and makes every investment in children's learning go further.
02:06Together we have the opportunity to improve education for 750 million children by 2030.
02:13I invite every partner in this room to join this ambition.
02:17Not as donors and recipients, but as allies in a common cause.
02:24Together we can multiply possibility for millions of children around the world.
02:28So we count on you.
02:30Thank you.
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