Currently 69 million children are out of school.
More than 700 million children don't know how to read or write.
Today 680 million children are enrolled in primary schools around the world. Yet, a lot more still needs to be done. More than 100 million children, over half of them girls, never get a chance to see the inside of a classroom.
The number of out-of-school children has declined from 25 million in 2003 to 8.1 million in mid-2009.
A high school dropout will earn about $260,000 less than high school graduates and $800,000 less than college graduates in their lifetime.
High school dropouts have a life expectancy 9.2 years shorter than high school graduates.
A one-year increase in average years of schooling for dropouts would reduce murder and assault rates by almost 30%, motor vehicle theft by 20%, arson by 13%, and burglary and larceny by about 6%.
There are 781 million illiterate adults worldwide, and 64 percentof them are women.
Of the 22 countries where more than half the population is illiterate, 15 are in Africa.
About 75 percent of children out of primary school in developing countries have mothers who did not go to school.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
What you can do...
It's as simple as signing a single petition to help children and people all around the world have the right to an education.
This petition purely deals with that fact the everyone should be able to go to school and they have traveled enough around around the world to see there there needs to be a difference made.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/right-to-education/
Also, you can donate un-wanted children's books to kids in Liberia who need them for their education but because of their poverty they are unable to purchase such materials.
http://www.liberiandevelopmentfoundation.org/pages/en/books_to_liberia.asp?gclid=COuGycGhqqkCFWVd5QodUnHoNA
Those are just two example of what YOU can do to help people who don't have the chance to get an good education.
This petition purely deals with that fact the everyone should be able to go to school and they have traveled enough around around the world to see there there needs to be a difference made.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/right-to-education/
Also, you can donate un-wanted children's books to kids in Liberia who need them for their education but because of their poverty they are unable to purchase such materials.
http://www.liberiandevelopmentfoundation.org/pages/en/books_to_liberia.asp?gclid=COuGycGhqqkCFWVd5QodUnHoNA
Those are just two example of what YOU can do to help people who don't have the chance to get an good education.
#26
You have the right to go to school and everyone should go to school. Primary schooling should be free. You should be able to learn a profession or continue your studies as afar as you wish. At school, you should be able to develop all your talents and you should be taught to get along with others, whatever their race, religion or the country they come from. Your parents have the right to choose how and what you will be taught at school.
Education is a Right
Just think what it might be like to sit and witness all of your friends around you going to school and being able to learn how to read and write while you work on a farm. Or imagine being so bullied that your afraid to go to school because people pick on your race or disability. That doesn't sound like too much fun now does it? No, and it's really not for a lot of children and people. There is an about 100 million children that don't get to even see the inside of a class room and over half of them are girls. (Source: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30887&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)
Since 1948 the right to education has been noticed universally once the Universal Declaration or Human Right's (UDHR) made it official. Yet, this human right just floats around not really being noticed and sometimes being cheated. Like, having to make children pay for an education which is undermining the concept of everyone has the right to an education. To some other parts of the world and people this right seems to be just a simple theory. The poorest countries are the ones who struggle with this issue the most because their government is too involved in other situations that are trying to be fixed. But what some people don't realize is that this is just as big of a situation as any other human right. (Source: http://www.oppapers.com/essays/The-HisTory-Of-Right-To-Education/402329)
No matter your age, gender, race, religion, disability and so forth you are entitled to a free elementary education. But not everyone if able to get this free education because they are held back from certain laws or rules that people make. Everyday children aren't allowed to go to school or can't because they have to work, or are discriminate. But, not just 3rd world children either, pregnant woman drop out of school due to harassment or other issues. Woman in general often aren't allowed to go to school for reasons that they are discriminated in gender or other unspecific reasons. That is why you see people like Oprah who is an extremely wealthy and famous woman opening up an only girl's school in a place where girls and woman aren't allowed to be educated. There are 152 girls that will attend her school that costed her 40 million dollars in South Africa. (Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010200083.html)
"I wanted to give this opportunity to girls who had a light so bright that not even poverty could dim that light." -Oprah Winfrey
Since 1948 the right to education has been noticed universally once the Universal Declaration or Human Right's (UDHR) made it official. Yet, this human right just floats around not really being noticed and sometimes being cheated. Like, having to make children pay for an education which is undermining the concept of everyone has the right to an education. To some other parts of the world and people this right seems to be just a simple theory. The poorest countries are the ones who struggle with this issue the most because their government is too involved in other situations that are trying to be fixed. But what some people don't realize is that this is just as big of a situation as any other human right. (Source: http://www.oppapers.com/essays/The-HisTory-Of-Right-To-Education/402329)
No matter your age, gender, race, religion, disability and so forth you are entitled to a free elementary education. But not everyone if able to get this free education because they are held back from certain laws or rules that people make. Everyday children aren't allowed to go to school or can't because they have to work, or are discriminate. But, not just 3rd world children either, pregnant woman drop out of school due to harassment or other issues. Woman in general often aren't allowed to go to school for reasons that they are discriminated in gender or other unspecific reasons. That is why you see people like Oprah who is an extremely wealthy and famous woman opening up an only girl's school in a place where girls and woman aren't allowed to be educated. There are 152 girls that will attend her school that costed her 40 million dollars in South Africa. (Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010200083.html)
"I wanted to give this opportunity to girls who had a light so bright that not even poverty could dim that light." -Oprah Winfrey
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