education for life
World conventions declare that every child has the right to free education. Education is essential for building self-esteem, being able to earn a living, and creating a fairer and healthier society. In the long run, education helps communities to develop and enables people to contribute to the well-being of their country.
Yet many of the world’s poorest people just don’t have the chance to be educated. In 2000, over 115 million children were not in school. Ninety-four per cent of these lived in developing countries.
It takes a lot of financial support, teacher training, or the building of a new school. Then communities could give their children the education they deserve.
In Ethiopia, only 64 per cent of children who start primary school reach the final grade. And in Niger, a country in West Africa which is one of the poorest in the world, less than a quarter of 15- to 24-year-olds are literate.
