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Celebrities from the Philippines are backing the to highlight the need for better education in the country.

Writer and entrepreneur�� and TV presenter Marc Nelson are helping to collect 1.5 million signatures to represent the 1.5 million children not in school in the southeast Asian country. That makes it one of the 10 highest out-of-school populations in the world.

Evelin Weber wants to help underserved children

Evelin, who is Philippines Patron of A World at School, said:���鶹APP�The Philippine government has not prioritised education as much as it needs to. Bringing education to the underserved children, not only in the Philippines but everywhere, is a global responsibility.�鶹APP�

The #UpForSchool Petition is a youth-led global coalition��working to get every girl and boy into school.��Already signed by more than five million people around the world, it calls on world leaders to take urgent action to get the 58 million out-of-school children into classrooms and learning.

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In the Philippines, the petition will be presented to the government and to the head of state at September�鶹APP�s United Nations General Assembly.

Evelin was born and raised in the Philippines and now lives in the United States. She has been a model, TV presenter and Wall Street banker �鶹APP� and is now writing books and helping humanitarian projects.

Marc is a presenter on the TV show��Asia�鶹APP�s Got Talent and is also an ambassador for the charities WWF Philippines and World Vision. He said:���鶹APP�We want to highlight the fact that education changes lives and more funding is needed to support that.�鶹APP�

His friend and fellow Asia�鶹APP�s Got Talent host Rovilson Hernandez has also backed the #UpForSchool Petition, along with TV sports presenter Jinno Rufino and Joey Mead King, TV presenter and a mentor on Asia�鶹APP�s Next Top Model.

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Ben Hewitt, Director of Communications and Campaigns at A World at School, said: �鶹APP�We are so appreciative of the collaboration between Evelin Weber and the International School of Manila, using their energy and enthusiasm to encourage their networks to get involved and sign up to be part of this growing petition.

�鶹APP�World leaders promised to get every child into school by 2015.�� We now have a window of opportunity to put the pressure on them to keep their promises, making 2015 the year all children secured the right to go to school and learn.�鶹APP�

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Students at the (ISM) were engaged in examining global issues and discovering their own solutions to solve for them. In researching these various issues, students identified education to be the root cause of many of the world�鶹APP�s problems. Because of this, students at the ISM were inspired to advocate for change.

Monica Villanueva, a teacher at ISM who is leading the youth movement for the #UpforSchool campaign, said: �鶹APP�We often underestimate the voice of today�鶹APP�s young changemakers. Each day, I am surprised by my students�鶹APP� desire to make a difference and advocate.�鶹APP�

Marc Nelson and Rovilson Fernandez on Asia�鶹APP�s Got Talent

Primary school net enrolment in the Philippines is 88% �鶹APP� down from 98% in 1990. Government spending on basic education in recent years has been erratic and �鶹APP�inadequate and is below the recommended 20% level of the national budget.

But typhoons �鶹APP� such as 2013�鶹APP�s Haiyan, or Yolanda as it was known in the Philippines �鶹APP� significantly affect education indicators such as attendance rates and �鶹APP�dropout rates and increasing cost due to damaged school facilities.��According to the RedCross, in Leyte alone, Typoon Haiyan left 3200 schools damaged and more than one million children without a learning space.