The President of the UN General Assembly convened a High-level SDG Action Event on Education on 28 June 2017 at UN Headquarters in New York, with the participation of Member States, the UN System, and stakeholders. At the request of the Office of the President of the General Assembly, UN-NGLS facilitated a process to identify youth civil society or social entrepreneur speakers for the High-level SDG Action Event on Education. UN-NGLS facilitated a Civil Society Selection Committee to review applications for the speaking roles and create a regionally and gender balanced short-list of candidates for the President of the General Assembly to consider. The President of the UN General Assembly selected Ms. Sanaya Bharucha from Teach For India – India to speak as a respondent during the panel discussion on education for sustainable development and education for global citizenship.

Information about Teach For India can be found here: https://www.teachforindia.org

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