4-5m children have been disabled by armed conflict Our Mission THINK EQUAL calls for a system change in education, and has designed a simple, concrete $400 billion and replicable programme to end the Is the annual cost discriminatory mind set and cycle of violence of armed conflict across our world. We call on governments and due to racial or education ministers to adopt the THINK EQUAL religious differences Programme mediating all aspects of experiential social and emotional learning. We ask them to mandate this as a tangible new subject onto the compulsory curriculum of world schools. And we $8.3 billion ask them to implement this from the earliest years is the annual cost of domestic when, according to neuroscientists, the child is violence against optimally cognitively modifiable, and attitudes and women in the USA behaviour can be changed (between ages 3 to 6). Photo courtesy of BRAN SYMONDSON alone Our Story So Far

THINK EQUAL was founded just 3 years ago and here's what we've already achieved: • We are working with the UN and its agencies. Former UN Secretary General, Ban Ki- 300,000 + Moon, had endorsed the THINK EQUAL message. William Kennedy, from the UN children under 18 Partnerships office has described THINK EQUAL as follows: “Every once in a while one are exploited as child soldiers comes across a non-profit leader and campaign that can actually change the world for the better and at a scale that is required in a generation. The vision, work and traction of the Think Equal Campaign is one of those exceptional outliers that everyone

everywhere should get behind". 12m • We have the world's first comprehensive programme of social and emotional learning, children have been framed as a new subject and delivered over 30 weeks for Early Years Education. left homeless by armed conflict • We deliver 3 levels (ages 3-4, 4-5, 5-6), 30 books, 90 lesson plans, accompanying resources, and 2-day training workshops, all free of charge. • We have piloted in pre-schools from January 2017, in 8 countries, across 4 continents. 150m • Canada is the first THINK EQUAL COUNTRY in the world, having started its rollout to an girls per year are entire school district in September 2018. victims of sexual • Our partners at ’s Center for Emotional Intelligence are evaluating our violence pilot programmes across the world. Their first report (09/2018) shows extremely strong impact with THINK EQUAL significantly increasing pro-social attitudes and behaviour, and decreasing anti-social behaviours. THINK EQUAL has proved concept. $12 billion • We have major global partnerships with, amongst others, Montessori, UNICEF (Sri Lanka is the annual total and Kenya) & UNESCO, the Ruler Program, Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence, and market in human the Center for Healthy Minds. trafficking with 1.2m child victims Think Equal meets head- on 9 of the 27m 17 SDG’s: people are enslaved in the trade of human trafficking

Think Equal is a not-for-profit organisation registered in the UK and USA

CEO and Founder

LESLEE UDWIN: BAFTA and Peabody award-winning Film Producer/Director, Human Rights Campaigner, winner of the Human Rights Award (previously awarded to ) and named Global Hero (Safe Magazine) and Global Thinker (Foreign Policy); voted by NY Times Second Most Impactful Woman 2015, (after ).

Patrons

MERYL STREEP: Multi-Oscar winning actress. An impassioned gender advocate & Human Rights Activist, Meryl has campaigned for women’s rights, education for child refugees, and to end trafficking and violence against women.

SIR KEN ROBINSON: Author, speaker and international advisor in education. Emeritus Professor at Warwick, listed as “one of the world’s elite thinkers on creativity”.

JOYCE BANDA: Malawi’s first female president (until 2014) and second on the African continent. She has received the African Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger in 1997 and was named Africa’s third most powerful women by Forbes magazine in 2014.

INDRANI GORADIA: Philanthropist and advocate for women’s health and empowerment. Founder of Indrani’s Light Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to ending gender-based violence and empowering women around the world.

ROSY SENANAYAKE: Mayor of Colombo and spokesperson for Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister and the Deputy Head of the Prime Minister’s Office. A champion of the rights of women and adolescents in Sri Lanka.

LORD RUMI VERJEE: Honorary Fellow of the University of Cambridge, Chairman of Free the Children UK and appointed by HM The Queen to the United Kingdom House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat Peer.

Committee of Experts

DR MARK BRACKETT: Founding Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, a Professor and Senior Research Scientist in Psychology, and a Faculty Fellow in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University.

VICKY COLBERT: Founder and Executive Director of Fundacion Escuela Nueva and co-creator of the Escuela Nueva pedagogical model. Awarded 2013 WISE Prize for Education Laureate.

BARBARA ISAACS: Director of National Strategies for Montessori Centre International, UK. Over the past 25 years, Barbara has trained Montessori teachers in the UK and Internationally.

DR. ROBIN STERN: Associate director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is a licensed psychoanalyst, educator, and author. Robin is the co-creator of the RULER program.

DR. SHEILA WAMAHIU: PhD in Education (Kenyatta University, Nairobi) and MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad). International Education, Gender and Development Consultant, leading a national study on Value-Based education in Kenya.

DR. URVASHI SAHNI: Brookings Institution & Ashoka Fellow; member of Hillary Clinton’s CHARGE commitment. Founder of Study Hall Education Foundation. Leading expert in curriculum reform, gender, and teacher training.