Free the Children
Worldwide, 121 million children of primary school age are not in school. An estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labour—one in six children in the world. About one in five adults in today's world—774 million people—is illiterate. It would cost less than 1% of the world's annual weapons budget to put every child in school.
The Situation of Poor Education
The poorest families spent as much money educating their children as they do on wine, cigarettes and prostitutes, their children's prospects would be transformed. Much suffering is caused not only by low incomes, but also by shortsighted private spending decisions by heads of households.". Kristof profiles a Congolese family, the Obamzas (yes, you read that right). The family is behind on its $6-a-month rent and cannot afford to send the three Obamza children to school at a cost of $7.50 a month. The Obamzas do, however, spend $10 a month on cellphone usage and Mr. Obamza spends $12-a-month drinking at the village bar.
Free Education in Poor and Developing Countries
96% of unschooled children live in developing countries and 75% of unschooled children live in Sub-Saharan Africa and West and South Asia. In Western and Central Africa, less than half of poor children complete even the first year of school. More and more children are becoming illiterate, leading to over 800 million adolescents and adults lacking literacy skills, which could equip them with the abilities needed to work their way out of poverty.
Educating Children in Poor Countries
Children are entitled to a free, quality basic education. Recognizing this entitlement, world leaders made the achievement of universal primary education by the year 2015 one of the Millennium Development Goals. In 2004, this goal appears to be out of reach for many poor countries.
Project Hope Bringing Education to China's Rural Poor
It has been twenty years since the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF) launched Project Hope in 1989. By raising 5.67 billion RMB in donations, aiding 3.46 million students from poverty-stricken families to go or return to schools and building 15,940 Hope primary schools throughout the past twenty years, Project Hope has made significant contributions to both the development of fundamental education in the economic backward regions of China and the healthy growth of younger generation.
For poor Chinese youths, education is often out of reach
Education through middle school has been compulsory and free in China since 2007, but it's upon leaving middle school that the problems start for poor and disadvantaged students. After that, families must foot the bill themselves, and poorer students are faced with the reality that high school may not be a viable option.
Education For Poor In Free......... Will This Happen?
India is very huge country in terms of population and it is known that people here are poor and don't have money to educate their kids. New education bill will provide education to children between 6-14 years of age, the task of implementing and enforcing thus will be handed over to state governments.The law came into effect in the whole of India except the state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1 April 2010, the first time in the history of India a law was brought into force by a speech by the Prime Minister.
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