New York, USA, September 26, 2012
Mr. Roberto Slim attended the working meetings of the Global Business Coalition for Education in the name of Mr. Carlos Slim. The working meetings were carried out during the side events of United Nations’ General Assembly, in which United Nations’ General Secretary, Ban Ki-Moon, launched the initiative “EDUCATION FIRST”, aimed to support the fulfillment of the educational Millennium Goals, a mission entrusted to Gordon Brown, United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister.
The Global Business Coalition for Education is supported by United Nations, UNESCO, UNICEF and NGO, as well as leaders and presidents from several nations. “EDUCATION FIRST” aim is to accelerate the educational development in the whole world, being supported by a starting 1.5 billion dollar investment to carry out the 2015 year goal, encompassing three specific objectives: universal children access to school, improving teaching quality, and promoting global citizenship.
The Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Ed) is the entrepreneurial district aimed to support United Nations’ General Secretary educational priorities. Mr. Carlos Slim stands for the only one Latin American member of the Latin America Advisory Board.
In his speech, Mr. Roberto Slim informed about Mexico’s educational progress to United Nations Special Envoy, Gordon Brown, due to educational programs being developed by Telmex and Carlos Slim Foundation, among which we list the following:
- More than 2.5 million trained alumni, teachers and parents since 2008.
- More than 300 workshops and 249,691 fulfilled educational activities.
- 52,350 children, young, and adults enrolled in Casas Telmex.
- 260,000 grants conceded to university students.
- 2,614 certificates, 200 master degrees, 159 diploma titles and 565 seminars in technology information (2,361educational and training activities).
- 608,546 distributed blueprints for the benefit of 825,641 persons.
- 10,346 trained educational operative for the benefit of 255,302 children and adults.
- 327,000 donated bicycles to disadvantaged-area children to help them to transport to school.
- 127,000 donated lens through “Ver para aprender” program.
In this way, TELMEX and Carlos Slim Foundation support all-level digital education in order to insert Mexico in Information Technology new Era and looking to diminish Mexico’s Digital Gap in respect to more developed economies.
