DAT'S UNFAIR D:

NO EDUCATION. NO LIFE 

NO EDUCATION. NO LIFE

NO EDUCATION. NO LIFE

NO EDUCATION. NO LIFE

NO EDUCATION. NO LIFE

Those Children Who Cannot Go To School:

New school year has arrived, but there're still many children who can't go to school or receive the education they need. The sexual equality still continues.

14 million students and 662 thousand teachers have started the new school of 2008-09, but there're also those who could not take their place in the classrooms. Poor children, challenged children, girls and those who have to work. According to the results of the work the Turkish Statistical Institute did for the period of October-December06, with the support of the International Program to End the Child Labor by the International Labor Organization, 958 thousand of the 16 million 264 thousand children between the ages of 10 and 17 work.  

Children have to complete their eight-year mandatory primary education, every year those children who are seasonal workers continue to work on the fields when their friends are taking their places in the classrooms. The work season starts before the schools end and continues after the schools start. According to experts, one way to stop this is to inspect if the parents are sending their children to the schools as required by the law.

Challenged children’s right to educate… 

There is a new bill in the assembly that intends to limit the state support to the education of the challenged children with 1 year.

“The challenged children have been receiving education in special rehabilitation centers for three years now. The state supports these centers financially for 6 to10 sessions a month, which is just what is given in a month. Is it enough? This is special education. In other words, they have to receive kind of education that is different from what other children receive. The state wants to end this because it is too expensive. What will happen to these children?”

Sexual inequality in education

In Turkey, the number of girls in school is lower than boys. According to an 08 Humane Development Report by the United Nations Development Program, young women aren't equal to the young men in education because of the conservative mentality that feeds the sexual discrimination in Turkey. There're still many children in Turkey who can't receive necessary and mandatory primary education. 

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Summary

Working with Zambia's Ministry of Education and EDC, they aim to provide access to full primary education through radio distance learning to 800,000 orphans and vulnerable children

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

800,000 Zambian children cannot attend formal education, as they live too far from a school or are AIDS orphans or children from desperately poor families. Adding to the problem, many teachers in Zambia fall sick and die of AIDS. In a sweeping effort to combat illiteracy and improve life skills, the Ministry's Education Broadcasting Service has implemented highly successful radio instruction. It covers the primary school curriculum, and is called "Learning at Taonga Market."

How will this project solve this problem?

In remote Zambian villages, a literate volunteer is trained as a mentor. They are given a Lifeline radio. Using Interactive Radio Instruction created by US-based Educational Development Center (EDC), mentors lead children through grade school lessons

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will help create a literate population in Zambia. More than 220,000 children have benefited to date. They test as well as children attending formal school, score a little higher in math, and complete grade levels in half the time

Project Message

"I cannot believe what I am seeing! Many children have no pen or pencil and are doing complicated fractions and division problems in their heads. They also have learned English and spelling!" - Mr. Misinde Phiri, of World Vision.

I found this article off UNICEF, it describes a project Zambia is doing to promote and enable children to get more accessible educational opportunities.

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Save the Children

STOP THE PRESSES.

THIS STORY IS SO CRITICAL TO THE WORLD THAT

IT'S PROBABLY AT THE TOP OF EVERY NEWS SITE I VISIT. OH MY GAWDSH, SHE MUST BE THE 1^ST TEENAGER TO EVER DO DRUGS AND SHE’S FAMOUS. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE WORLD WE LIVE IN!?!? DEAR LORD, WHERE ARE HER MORALS? Meanwhile, 3 boys are missing in Michigan, ‘Corrective Rape' in South Africa is still a problem AND the UN voted to accept execution of gays, and it’s unimportant because MILEY CYRUS SMOKED A BONG. 

Fatimah Bamun, (BALIZENDA, Ethiopia) dropped out of Balizenda Primary School in grade 1 when her father refused to buy her pencils and paper. WOW, FATHER OF THE YEAR~ This is pretty harsh but actually kids around the globe don't have education because of reasons like this. They don't have enough money and so they have to provide for their families instead of work.

In sub-Saharan Africa, school fees consume nearly a quarter of a poor family's income, paying not only for tuition, but also indirect fees such as Parent-Teacher Association and community contributions, textbook fees, compulsory uniforms and other charges. FEES ARE KEEPING SCHOOL CHILDREN OUT OF THE CLASSROOMS. BUT WAIT. In order to deliver on the global promise to get all children quality primary education by 2015, the UN system is rallying partners around innovative policy measures and bold initiatives such as the abolition of school fees.

Roughly estimated 700 million primary-school-age children in the world today, about 93 million aren`t in school. A majority of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Mostly children of ethnic minorities from remote regions, working children, children living in conditions of emergency and conflict, children affected by HIV/AIDS, and children with disabilities. And 53 per cent – girls.