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Some of our partners address the Town Hall audience Picture: Steve Gong

An incredible 10 million people around the world signed our #UpForSchool Petition. But we wouldn鈥檛 have been able to reach that astounding total without the help of some very special supporters.

Many of them were recognised at our event in New York last week 鈥� held to mark the petition being handed in to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.

Here鈥檚 another thank you to these amazing organisations and people who helped to shout out the message that every child deserves to be in school. All pictures are by Steve Gong for A World at School.

MUSLIM AID

An amazing two million signatures were collected by this UK-based charity 鈥� . At The Town Hall, USA country director Salaudeen Nausrudeen 鈥� pictured with UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown 鈥� said: 鈥淲e were excited from day one until today 鈥� and our commitment continues, not only for the kids of Gaza and Palestine and Syria but the kids around the world who deserve an education now.鈥�

SHOFCO

Shining Hope For Communities is based in Africa鈥檚 biggest slum 鈥� Kibera in Kenya. SHOFCO held a major . Its founder Kennedy Odede 鈥� pictured with his wife Jessica Posner 鈥� told the event: 鈥淲e went door by door and the kids felt part of it. When you are poor you become invisible 鈥� but we became visible. They felt they are part of this country, they are part of this global world.鈥�

ITA

Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aaagahi in Pakistan by going door to door,聽holding events, going to schools and universities and using its network of Education Youth Ambassadors. At The Town Hall event, Baela Raza Jamil, ITA Adviser/Trustee, said: 鈥淭he youth have been our transformative power. Once they have a mission and they have been given the skill and commitment and the motivation, they have shown unstoppable energy.鈥�

WALK FREE

The organisation was represented in New York by Alex Monroe, Senior Campaigns Manager in the United States 鈥� on the microphone in our picture. He said: 鈥淕etting every child into school is a monumental step toward eradicating child slavery. We are so excited to be part of this huge day for global education.鈥�

PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION

Evelin Weber 鈥� writer, entrepreneur and Philippines Ambassador for A World at School 鈥� has helped to mobilise thousands of people to back the #UpForSchool Petition and is behind the . She said: 鈥淭he campaign has transcended boundaries, cultural norms, political and religous biases. It has become the string that has attached all education movements within the Philippines.鈥�

ANGRY BIRDS

Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the massively popular games brand, produced a to support the petition 鈥� persuading thousands of fans to give their backing to the campaign. The Mighty Eagle of Angry Birds, Peter Vesterbacka 鈥� pictured with Tiina Rantakokko 鈥� was at the launch of the #UpForSchool Petition a year ago and returned last week to the Town Hall event.

BRAC

The largest NGO in the world and adolescent development clubs across Bangladesh to collect 1.2 million names. Here聽Dr Muhammed Musa from BRAC聽gets a handshake from Mr Brown.

WORLD VISION

World Vision Bangladesh by activating a network of children, parents, teachers and community and religious leaders. It shared messages on child forums, held youth rallies, went into classrooms, visited markets and went door to door in villages across the country. Pictured is CEO聽Kevin Jenkins taking a bow.

SALVATION ARMY

The organisation in countries across the world, with聽signatures collected in time for the church and charity鈥檚 150th anniversary congress in London in July. At the Town Hall, presenter and TV star Rainn Wilson said the Salvation Army 鈥渉as been highlighting the injustice and the dehumanising effects of being out of school鈥�. Pictured is Dean Pallant with Salvation Army colleagues.

GLOBAL YOUTH AMBASSADORS

A World at School鈥檚 network of 500 are in 85 countries around the world 鈥� spreading the #UpForSchool message throughout their communities. More than 30 of them travelled to New York to be at the Town Hall and share ideas and stories at our headquarters.

ANCEFA

The has been with the #UpForSchool campaign since its launch, campaigning across the continent. Here Gordon Brown shares the #UpForSchool Petition book with ANCEFA鈥檚 Boaz Waruku and Solange Koumbon.

SAVE THE CHILDREN & FUNDACAO ABRINQ

Staff from Save The Children in Norway 鈥� known as Redd Barna 鈥� and Fundacao Abrinq from Brazil were at the New York gathering. Last year Redd Barna to mark the Nobel Peace Prize awards and to promote the #UpForSchool Petition. Pictured is Maite Fernandez Gauto of Fundacao Abrinq.

PLAN INTERNATIONAL

One of the leading child rights organisations and a champion for education, leading advocacy around the world. Plan has worked with A World at School on several projects and recently some of its youth activists in Indonesia to raise awareness of #UpForSchool. Plan鈥檚 Gorel Bogarde is pictured with youth activists.

THANDI TUTU

The Chief Executive of TutuDesk, which aims to provide 20 million mobile desks to children in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020. Her father, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 鈥� becoming the sixth millionth person to add their name.

CSEI

The 聽works to help excluded communities in India, including Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims 鈥� particularly focusing on aiding young people and women into education and employment. CSEI promoted #UpForSchool at a . Illiterate children working in the rubbish dumps of the city added their thumb prints to the petition.

AVAAZ

The campaigning website Avaaz last December. Hundreds of thousands of people honoured the memory of the victims of the Peshawar school massacre in Pakistan by signing. It helped to take the number of signatures at the time past one million.

WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT

Silvana Koch-Mehrin, founder of Women In Parliament, was at the event. Host and TV star Rainn Wilson said: 鈥淪he鈥檚 helped mobilise women parliamentarians from around the globe to stand #UpForSchool.鈥�