Young Students On ‘Lifetime Mission’ Pledge #Neveragain To School Shootings At 6th Gesf In Dubai

The sixth Global Education and Skills Forum (GESF) opened in Dubai underpinning the need to ‘ensure every child has access to education’ and with a searing call to put an end to school shootings, especially following one of the world’s deadliest incidents in which 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Addressing the audience of over 2,000 delegates from 156 countries, comprising heads of states, ministers, achievers, thought leaders and educationists, three students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida, USA, rallied support for the #NeverAgain campaign, calling for gun control regulation, currently gaining momentum across the US.

With this momentum for the nationwide ‘March for Our Lives’ protest on March 24 to protest gun violence, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Suzanna Barna, Lewis Mizen and Kevin Trejos, said they are on a “lifetime mission” to ensure that every kid is safe to get education. They said that while “it is difficult to pass gun legislation in the US”, they are hopeful that President Donald Trump would “hopefully see the light” {of their cause] and this is not “a Democrat or a Republican issue but an American issue.”