Education

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In many impoverished communities, children don’t have the opportunity to receive an education. Some don’t have resources like books or uniforms, leaving children to fall behind without the support to catch up.

Youth drop out of school to support their families and never go back. And entire school systems are understaffed, failing to provide adequate education to the children who live there. Lack of education increases the likelihood of involvement in drugs, gangs and other risky behaviors. It’s easy to see how an absence of education spirals into a cycle of poverty.

When you make a gift to our education programs, you provide the resources, tutoring programs and more for children from kindergarten through high school and beyond.

Education is an essential human right that enables individuals to develop their own abilities and improve their quality of life. However, gaining access to quality education remains a challenge to those vulnerable within the society, especially girls. Globally, less than 40% of countries provide girls and boys with equal access to education and girls are more likely to never enter primary school than boys.

Children with mothers who are educated, are more likely to have higher levels of education and better health. It is estimated that a child born to a mother who can read is 50% more likely to survive past the age of 5. Therefore, the more women are educated, the greater the likelihood that their homes and communities are free from poverty.

Another problem is adults who lack basic literacy and numeracy skills essential to daily life because they did not receive education earlier in life. There are still 750 million illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds of whom are women. We assist these people to gain basic life skills so that they can make proactive decisions in everyday life.

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