The youngest official blogger inside the G20 summit is planning to grade world leaders on how well they keep their promise on education for all in the light of the global economic crisis.

For the first time at a major political meeting, 50 bloggers from around the world will have the same access as the mainstream media and 14-year-old James Simmonds has been chosen to be one of them.

The G20 summit on Thursday will be attended by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, US President Barack Obama and other leaders of the most powerful countries in the world who will be discussing a global response to the financial crisis.

James, who goes to Stantonbury Campus in Milton Keynes, said: “For British students money means clothes and games but to students in the poorest parts of the world a miniscule amount of money will give them the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty by getting an education. The difference a few dollars of pounds could make – if used well - could make all the difference.

“And this is my intention, to find out if presidents, prime ministers and leaders are going to use the money wisely and for the benefit of the poorest people.”

James, who won the Steve Sinnott Award for Young Global Education Campaigner of the Year, along with fellow student Bethany Law, has just returned from an education fact-finding trip to Tanzania.

The two winners impressed the judges with their innovative ideas to highlight the injustice of the 75 million children around the world who don’t have the opportunity to go to school. The award is organised by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a coalition of child rights activists, teachers’ unions and development organisations around the world, united in their determination to make the right to education a reality.

After speaking at the House of Commons, at the launch of the Send My Friend ’09 campaign, James was invited to be one of just 50 hand picked bloggers from around the world.

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