Micah Challenge UK, a coalition of churches and Christian organisations, has welcomed the British Government's pledge to provide half a billion pounds over the next decade for primary school education in Tanzania and Ethiopia.
The worldwide movement of Christians, churches and church organisations is campaigning to ensure that Millennium Development Goals to halve global poverty are met by 2015.
The funding was announced in Brussels on Wednesday 2 May by Chancellor Gordon Brown and International Development Secretary Hilary Benn during talks on how to meet the Millennium Development Goal of getting all children into primary school by 2015.
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