Diversity and Dialogue took students from three different schools to the Labour Party conference in September 2005. The girls represented Roman Catholic, Muslim and secular schools and the students questioned Ministers Gareth Thomas and Baroness Scotland on the question of girls' education.

Closing the gender gap in education is one of the Millennium Development Goals and it was due to be achieved by 2005. Save the Children has been running a wider campaign to highlight the failure to achieve this goal.

Before the event Diversity and Dialogue ran workshops to teach participants about issues surrounding girls' education in the developing world and to provoke discussion about what their own education means to them. The students discussed the issues and wrote questions to ask the Ministers.

Diversity and Dialogue hopes to develop the links made between the participating schools in further interfaith work in the future.

Project type

• Interfaith

Region

• London