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High-level guests included  Gordon Brown, Lebanese education minister Elias Bou Saab and British Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher. They witnessed performances, campaign videos and youth-led entertainment at the American University of Beirut, followed by a mass signing of the .

It calls on world leaders to keep their promise to get every child into school without fear of danger or discrimination and has gathered more than 5.5 million signatures so far.

Other rallies have been held in New York, London, Nairobi, Kinshasa and Monrovia.

The event was hosted by Salyne El Samarany, CEO of  and a 2014 UN Youth Courage Award winner. She told the audience about the work of A World at School and said: �鶹APP�We must ensure every child�鶹APP�s basic right to go to school is realised.�鶹APP�

Salyne El Samarany, CEO of , tells youth event in Beirut every child must be in school

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UK Ambassador Mr Fletcher said: �鶹APP�You have the power. You have two amazing things.�鶹APP� Holding up a smartphone, he continued: �鶹APP�You have the means to connect with people all over the world and you also have the education which gives you the means to change the world. Use the power that you have.�鶹APP�

Education minister Mr Bou Saab held up an #UpForSchool T-shirt and told the audience: �鶹APP�You can win wars through education.�鶹APP� He added: �鶹APP�We are committed to do our best to achieve what the UN signed for in 2000. With your help we are getting there. With the funding from the international community we are able to make progress.�鶹APP�

Education minister Elias Bou Saab with an #UpForSchool T-shirt

Education envoy Mr Brown talked about the double-shift system being used in Lebanese schools, which allows both Lebanese and Syrian refugee children to be taught. He said �鶹APP� thanks to the tireless efforts of Mr Bou Saab and the support of the international community �鶹APP� that 100,000 Syrian children were already being taught this way. Eventually, 300,000 girls and boys will have the right to free education through the double-shift system. Mr Brown added: �鶹APP�I met a boy this morning and I asked him: �鶹APP�What do you want to be?�鶹APP� He said to me: �鶹APP�I want to be an engineer�鶹APP�. And when I asked him why, he said: �鶹APP�I want to rebuild Syria�鶹APP�. We should work night and day so that he does have the chance to rebuild Syria.�鶹APP�

Annemiek Hoogenboom from the People�鶹APP�s Postcode Lottery  addressed the event and a video was played with an #UpForSchool message of support from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. A refugee girl called Noor told how her family had fled from Syria to neighbouring Lebanon.

Noor tells Beirut rally: �鶹APP�My family decided to leave Syria after our school bus was terrorised.�鶹APP�

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Mira Hamoun, an A World at School Global Youth Ambassador from Lebanon, spoke about technology being the language of the future generation and of harnessing its power to change the world.

She added: �鶹APP�Education is a stepping stone towards a successful life.�鶹APP�

Global Youth Ambassador Mira Hatoum at Beirut event: �鶹APP�Education is stepping stone to successful life.�鶹APP�

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Young people from the Mouvement Social Group performed a piece about what it is like to be growing up as a refugee from a conflict.

Syrian children performing a heart warming act about their situation because of the war.

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Muslim Aid Lebanon Country Director Ahmad Fawzi handed in 12,000 signatures for the #UpForSchool Petition �鶹APP� which is just a fraction of the amazing 1.4 million names they have collected in total.

Amazing! has collected 1.4m Petition signatures. Presents 12k of them at Beirut youth rally

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