1 GOAL Blog

1 GOAL launch at 3pm (bst).

1goal — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:01:07 +0000

We’d like to invite you to join in our launch at Wembley Stadium on Thursday 20th August at 3pm BST on our Facebook wall. With Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, International football stars, the Global Campaign for Education and host Gary Lineker, to launch
1 GOAL, an Education for All initiative, supported by FIFA.

This is the campaign we are launching, that is taking on the mantle of Make Poverty History, with football players worldwide and millions of supporters. All aiming to achieve education for all children in the world, as a legacy of next years World Cup in South Africa.

I hope you can make it to follow the action live & ask questions of the participants, including some of the worlds biggest footballing names - and we’re serious…!

The 1 GOAL website launches at the same time and you can join us at www.join1GOAL.org or follow us at www.twitter.com/join1goal.

Come join us on the wall – Thursday 20th August at 3pm BST

Join the 1 GOAL launch

1goal — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:08:07 +0000

I hope you can make it to follow the action live & ask questions of the participants.

The 1 GOAL website launches on Thursday at 1pm and you can join us at www.join1GOAL.org or follow us at www.twitter.com/join1goal.

Come join us on the wall – Thursday 20th August at 3pm BST

15 hours to launch at Wembley

1goal — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:51:38 +0000

The 1 GOAL website team taking a break for 5 minutes… A long night still ahead….http://twitpic.com/eiq5l

Discussing 1GOAL…

1goal — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:31:10 +0000

Barrack Obama & Sepp Blatter discuss the 1-Goal / FIFA education project when Sepp invited Barrack to next years 2010 World Cup on Tuesday http://bit.ly/HjbOv

Premier League Trophy visits Uganda

1goal — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:26:32 +0000

Great story from The Guardian newspaper in the UK, on how the Premier League trophy was taken to a football tournament run in Katine, North-Eastern Uganda. Turns out it was a bit of a surprise to most players…http://bit.ly/vjWKO

Top Players Support 1 GOAL

1goal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:34:41 +0000

Former Ghanian great Anthony Baffoe, today showed his great support for 1 GOAL and signed up “I am totally excited about working on this 1 GOAL project and happy to support this campaign. Education is valuable, important and most of all key to making a difference. I am proud as an ex footballer to be part of this movement and hope that all of us will raise the awareness around the World Cup so that everyone signs up to the website – together we can make a difference” http://bit.ly/cscGv

Front Page News

1goal — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:48:33 +0000

The appointment of our creative agency for 1 Goal – M&C Saatchi made the front page of Campaign magazine in London. There’s some great work coming…http://bit.ly/oBKXC