Unlock Big Change: A People's Postcode Lottery Special
Better Angels with Sarah Brown
Release Date: 02/25/2020
The global early years crisis
Better Angels with Sarah Brown
This year, Theirworld launched the campaign, calling on world leaders and global institutions to act to support the world’s youngest children. In March, Theirworld brought together a panel of experts to discuss at the critical issues around providing quality care and early learning for young children - and the burden that falls unfairly on women to plug the gap. Sarah Brown, Theirworld Chair, was joined on an Instagram Live by Professor Dame Leslie Regan, the first women's health ambassador for England; Janet Mbugua, Kenyan media personality and gender equality...
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100th episode: In conversation with Sarah and Gordon Brown
Better Angels with Sarah Brown
To celebrate the 100th episode of Better Angels on World Children’s Day, Sarah handed over her hosting microphone to Andrew Jack, global education editor of the Financial Times, for a wide-ranging interview with her and her husband, Gordon Brown, about the state of global education. Andrew asked Sarah and Gordon, the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, about their motivations for advocating for children’s education and what actions world leaders need to take to give all children around the world a quality education. “If we could become the first...
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Climate Education
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In November, the world will gather in Egypt for COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to discuss ways to tackle the climate emergency. In this episode, Sarah Brown speaks with Keya Lamba, the co-founder of Earth Warriors, an organisation bringing climate education to curriculums around the world, and most recently, with the support of Theirworld, to schools in Zambia and Botswana. Keya talks about how climate education empowers students to take action to make the planet safer and greener. Sarah also speaks with Maria Mphanza, a teacher at Mnyaula...
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Let Me Learn campaign
Better Angels with Sarah Brown
Right now, 260 million children are not in school, and many more are in the classroom but not receiving a quality education. Let down by poorly trained teachers, outdated curriculums and lack of digital connectivity, they risk not reaching their full learning potential. Next week, world leaders will debate solutions to this crisis at the historic Transforming Education Summit in New York during the United Nations General Assembly. To mark the summit, Theirworld Chair Sarah Brown spoke with Jayathma Wickramanayake, United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, and two...
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20th Anniversary Special #4: What next?
Better Angels with Sarah Brown
In the final episode of Theirworld’s 20th anniversary special, Theirworld Chair Sarah Brown talks with Beatrace Ndisha Mwanjala, a Global Youth Ambassador from Kenya, about what needs to be done to ensure we meet the United Nations goal of inclusive and quality education for all children by 2030. Beatrace shares some of her own struggles accessing education, including what it was like to walk long distances to school when faced with the threat from wild animals. Sarah also speaks with Justin van Fleet, President of Theirworld and Executive Director of the Global Business...
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20th Anniversary Special #3: How do you forge powerful partnerships?
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In the third episode of Theirworld’s 20th anniversary special, Theirworld Chair Sarah Brown talks with Motunrayo Fatoke, a Global Youth Ambassador (GYA) from Nigeria, about how forging powerful partnerships has helped to get some of the world’s most vulnerable children back into school. We also hear from Maysa Jalbout, Senior Advisor on Education in Emergencies for Theirworld, about her work supporting refugee education in Greece. She is joined by Elias Bou Saab, former Lebanese Minister of Education, who collaborated with Theirworld on the double shift school system in...
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20th Anniversary Special #2: How do you create a movement?
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In the second episode of Theirworld’s 20th anniversary special, Theirworld Chair Sarah Brown talks with Benedict Joson, a former Global Youth Ambassador (GYA) who supported Theirworld's 2015 #UpForSchool petition calling on world leaders to prioritise education. The petition gathered 11 million signatures, making it the largest petition for education in history – and Benedict took a starring role, delivering the petition with global pop sensation Shakira to Gordon Brown, the UN’s Special Envoy for Global Education. Sarah also speaks with Ben Hewitt, Theirworld‘s Director of...
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20th Anniversary Special #1: How do you start a charity?
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To celebrate Theirworld’s 20th anniversary, we have produced a special Better Angels podcast series about the history and evolution of the charity. In the opening episode of this four-part series, Theirworld Chair Sarah Brown talks with Dr Taha Khan, a former Global Youth Ambassador who was selected to support many of Theirworld’s early campaigns. Sarah shares how her daughter Jennifer, who died just 10 days after being born prematurely, inspired her to establish the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory to look into the causes and impacts of early birth. We also hear from...
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International Women's Day 2021 Special #2: Live from Theirworld's virtual event
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In this episode, we hear some highlights from Theirworld's International Women's Day event and speak with some of the event's attendees about girls’ education and gender equality Theirworld hosted its 7th annual International Women’s Day event on Thursday 4 March - but went virtual for the first time ever, due to Covid-19. Covid-19 has put the issue of girls’ education firmly in the spotlight. Now more than ever, it’s important that we come together to hear from those who are campaigning to break down the barriers facing girls and discuss how we can act to unlock big change...
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International Women's Day 2021 Special #1: Youth Activism
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In this episode, Jamira Burley talks to Simbiat Oladoja and Bushra Farooq, two remarkable young women who are doing incredible work on the ground to open up education to the next generation of female leaders.
info_outlineThis is a special edition of the Better Angels podcast where we talk to iconic changemakers around the world.
This episode has been recorded for the People’s Postcode Lottery – for everyone who plays it and everyone who works there supporting both the players and the charities – at Theirworld we want to say thank you and share some of our stories from our Better Angels interviews so you can hear about the impact that your support makes.
Here you will hear from global leaders from the United Nations, European Commission, Africa, and Lebanon, from the Theirworld leadership team, our ambassador Nick Sharratt and if you listen to the end how well known actors like David Morrissey, Sir Patrick Stewart and David Tennant add their voices to our campaigns and causes they care about.
Theirworld’s vision is to end the global education crisis and unleash the potential of the next generation.
Five years ago, while nearly half of the world’s out-of-school children were caught up in conflict, its aftermath and natural disasters around the world, big change was needed. This meant addressing large-scale structural change as well as determining what works on the ground - from school transport and nutritious meals to trauma counselling and effective teaching for refugee children. The players of the People’s Postcode Lottery have enabled Theirworld to tackle new areas of involvement, push our campaign worldwide and get right up close to the decision-makers who can unlock that big change and create a brighter future for millions of children.
We believe that the trust that the players, and the team at People’s Postcode Lottery, have placed in Theirworld has made a difference to our goals. And we would like to share with you some of the perspectives on how we go about addressing the global education crisis
Contributors (in order of appearance)
Sarah Brown
Chair, Theirworld
Graça Machel
Global advocate for women’s and children’s rights
Wanja Maina
Global Youth Ambassador for Theirworld.
Jamira Burley
Youth engagement advisor, Theirworld
Amina Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General, the United Nations
Annemiek Hoogenboom
Country Director, People’s Postcode Lotteries
Christos Stylianides
Former European Commissioner for Humanitarian and Aid Crisis Management
Melissa Fleming
Head of Communications, the United Nations
Elias Bou Saab
Former Lebanese Minister for Education and Higher Education
Justin van Fleet
President, Theirworld
Nick Sharratt
Children’s illustrator and author
Yasmine Sherif
Director, Education Cannot Wait
David Morrissey
Actor and UNHCR ambassador
David Tennant
Actor
Sir Patrick Stewart
Actor
Shazia Ramzan
Global Youth Ambassador for Theirworld
Kainat Riaz
Global Youth Ambassador for Theirworld
Better Angels is presented by Sarah Brown. The producer is Ben Hewitt, and it is edited by Warren Borg of Worgie productions. February 2020.