Quality Education – This Better Work

‘Nelson Mandela said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. A quality education gives us all the chance to build the life we want, and for children born into poverty, it’s an essential part of their escape route.

Children around the world face many barriers to accessing an education. Some are obvious – like not having a school to go to – while others are more subtle, like the teacher at the school not having had the training needed to effectively help children to learn. Many challenges remain to ensure all children can go to school and learn.

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Facts and Figures

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57 million remain without schools and at the current rate it will be 2086 before access is reached just for poor, rural African girls.
In poor countries, one in four young people are unable to read a single sentence.
130 million children remain illiterate and innumerate despite having been in school.
To reach the goal of universal primary education would require an extra $26bn per year, but aid to education has declined at a greater rate than overall aid budgets.

(UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report in 2013)

Early childhood is the most critical period of growth and development in a person’s life! HOWEVER…

There are roughly 5 million children below 5 in S.A. today. Of these, 2.3 million are affected by abject poverty, while 6% of them have special needs.
Due to high levels of HIV and AIDS, many parents have died leaving orphans.
Almost 21% of children under 5 are stunted through malnutrition and many die unnecessarily from preventable diseases.
LESS THAN 16% have access to ANY FORM of ECD intervention.

source: http://www.tree-ecd.co.za/what-we-do/

Key Issues

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Ways to be involved

Here are some ways you can be involved in providing quality education to children around the world

Be a teacher of primary or secondary school students
Work as a community health worker providing care for children under the age of 5 to assist in their early development
Train and equip teachers of young children to enable them to give more dynamic and interesting ways of teaching literacy, numeracy and life-skills
Write textbooks and create teaching resources.
Counsel parents and families to support children during school
Train, mentor and support teachers
Use technology to create resources for teachers in rural areas.
Teach and mentor students to help them achieve a secondary education qualification.
Conduct social research into factors affecting early childhood development with the aim of advancing understanding and practice
Work with an organisation that focuses on early language and literacy development in the first eight years of children’s lives.
Develop innovative ways to resource people who run after care programmes and homework clubs
Work with an NGO that provides early child development services in needy communities
Work in an organisation that builds quality classrooms & provides school facilities