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Ghana, today joined the rest of the world to endorse the 1GOAL campaign to provide an education for every child across the globe. President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, Black Stars coach Milovan Rajevac and team captain Stephen Appiah together with other personalities joined World leaders, footballers, fans and Fifa to support the campaign. The 1GOAL campaign, which aims to make education available to all following the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa was heard via live satellite link-up from the leaders of the UK, South Africa, Spain and the Netherlands about the importance of the project. Leaders from Ghana, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Brazil made pre-recorded statements in support of the campaign. Speaking ahead of the launch, President Blatter said: "It is an immense honour for FIFA to gather around football's force for change, so many political leaders of today's world and so many football legends, all motivated by solidarity and a strong desire for action! "The 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first one to be held on the African continent, represents an unique opportunity to mobilize energies around the globe to provide education and thus a better future for every child of our planet. The 1Goal education campaign should become the rallying point of concrete commitments by governments, investors and individuals to be true to our values of universality and to the values of football, an amazing school of life, with 2010 as the target date of this historic campaign." The 1GOAL campaign aims to recruit tens of millions of supporters through a mass sign-up campaign, and will strive to achieve a school place for the 75 million children out of education.