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Education Is The Key by marvelyly(m): 7:33pm On Jul 13, 2017 |
Children living in poverty experience deprivation of
the material, spiritual and emotional resources
needed to survive, develop and thrive, leaving
them unable to enjoy their rights, achieve their full
potential or participate as full and equal members
of society. No child should be forced to live in
such a powerless state but through education, be
empowered to create a brighter future for
themselves and their families. We believe that
education is the key to reducing poverty and
inequality, to creating sustainable economic
growth, to preventing needless deaths from
hunger and disease and to foster peace.
WHY EDUCATION?
Here are 10 reasons we sourced from the Global
Partnership for Education.
1. End Poverty – Education is the one of the most
effective ways to reduce poverty.
According to UNESCO, 171 million people could be
lifted out of poverty – a 12% drop in global poverty
– if all students in low-income countries left
school with basic reading skills. UNESCO
also found that one extra year of schooling
increases an individual’s earnings by up to 10%,
and each additional year of schooling raises
average annual gross domestic product by 0.37%.
2. End hunger – achieve food security and
improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture.
There’s strong evidence that a mother’s education
improves her children’s nutrition, especially as
she seeks higher levels of schooling. Education
gives mothers the skills and resources needed to
be able to provide nutritious meals for their
children. The most recent UNESCO research in
2013 shows that there are approximately 47
million children in low-income countries who are
stunted as a result of malnutrition in early
childhood. If all mothers in those countries had a
primary education, 1.7 million children would be
saved from stunting. If those mothers had a
secondary education, 12.2 million children would
be saved from stunting.
3. Good Health – Ensure healthy lives and
promote well-being for all ages.
Better educated people are much less vulnerable
to health risks. Education helps fight the spread of
HIV/AIDS and other diseases, reduces mother
and child mortality and helps improve health.
When mothers in particular are educated, even at
the most primary level, they are more likely to be
well informed about various diseases and take
steps to prevent them. UNESCO reports that each
extra year of a mother’s schooling reduces the
probability of infant mortality by as much as 10%
and that a child whose mother can read is 50%
more likely to live past age five. “In Africa’s
poorest states, UNESCO projects that the lives of
1.8 million children could have been saved if their
mothers had at least a secondary education,”
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education.
A study in the journal Lancet also showed that
four million child deaths have been prevented over
the past four decades thanks to the global
increase in women’s education.
4. Quality Education For All – Ensure inclusive and
equitable quality education and promote lifelong
learning opportunities for all.
Education builds on itself, creating greater
capacity to educate others and nurture a culture
that values learning. Education equips learners of
all ages with the skills and values needed to better
provide for themselves and their children; to be
responsible global citizens, such as respect for
human rights, gender equality and environmental
sustainability. Investing in and strengthening a
country’s education sector is key to the
development of any country and its people.
Without investment in quality education, progress
on all other development indicators will stagnate.
iDream Inc. works to ensure that all children
irrespective of where they live get a quality
education.
5. Gender Equality – Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and girls.
Education enables girls and women to reach their
full potential – in parity with men and boys – in
their homes, communities, workplaces and
institutions of influence. One additional school year
can increase a woman’s earnings by up to 20%,
according to World Bank studies , and Plan
International has shown that some countries lose
more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate
girls at the same level as boys. We also know that
as the gap between the number of girls and boys
narrows, so, too, do gender disparities in wages
and employment.
6. Clean Water and Sanitation – Ensure availability
and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all.
As communities become better educated about
the links between their sanitation and health
they see substantial improvements in sanitation.
And, as societies become more economically
prosperous, it stands to reason that they will be
better able to create modern water and sanitation
facilities and systems.
In many societies, girls can spend as many as 15
hours per week fetching water for their families,
leave no time for school, UNESCO reports .
Similarly, without access to safe sanitation, there
are many more sick children who will miss
school. In Ethiopia, 6.8 million people gained
access to improved sanitation from 1990 to 2006.
This was partly the result of having educated
communities about the links between sanitation
and health, and of implementing new, affordable
technologies.
7. Good Jobs and Economic Growth – Education
helps people work better and can create
opportunities for sustainable and viable economic
growth now and in the future.
Education is one of the strongest drivers of
economic progress and prosperity. Studies have
shown that each additional year of schooling
raises average annual gross domestic product
(GDP) growth by 0.37%.
The Education for All Global Monitoring
Report showed that, in 1965, adults in East Asia
and the Pacific had, on average, spent 2.7 more
years in school than those in sub-Saharan Africa.
Over a 45-year period, average annual growth in
income per capita was 3.4% in East Asia and the
Pacific, but 0.8% in sub-Saharan Africa. The
difference in education levels explains about half
of the difference in growth.
8. Reduce Inequalities – Reduce inequality within
and among countries.
As more children, from across the demographic,
geographic and cultural spectrum become
educated, we are likely to see an improvement in
a country’s income inequality.
One study showed that a 0.1% improvement in a
country’s education equality can, over forty years,
raise its per capita income by 23%
higher. Research demonstrates that with more
education equality, Vietnam’s economic
performance improved and, in 2005, its GDP
surpassed Pakistan’s, where education equality
levels are half those of Vietnam’s. And, with better
education, people from traditionally disadvantaged
communities are better positioned to advocate for
their own rights and needs, gain entry into higher
echelons of economic, social and civic life and
help narrow gaps of inequality across their
societies.
9. Sustainable Cities and Communities – Make
cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable.
With education, people are more likely than not to
understand, support and craft creative solutions
that ensure the basic ingredients of sustainable
cities and communities are in place.
Good urban planning, efficient energy use, good
water and sanitation management, social inclusion
and other elements of well-working communities
require people with knowledge and skills that are
only available through quality education. At the
heart of a World Bank Sustainable Cities Initiative ,
for example, are awareness-building programs,
development and implementation of local
diagnostic tools, the creation of policy reforms and
other tasks that require not just primary but
advanced education.
10. Peace and Justice – Promote peaceful and
inclusive societies for sustainable development,
provide access to justice for all and build
effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at
all levels.
Education is an essential precursor to peace,
tolerance and a healthy civil society. Education
encourages transparency, good governance,
stability and helps fight against graft and
corruption.
Studies have shown that people with secondary
educations are more likely than those with only
primary education to show tolerance for people
who speak another language (a 21% difference in
Latin America and 34% among Arab States),
immigrants (26% and 16%, respectively), people
of a different religion (39% and 14%), people with
HIV (45% and 12%) and people of a different race
(47% and 28%).
We also know that literate people are more likely
to participate in the democratic process and
exercise their civil rights, and that, if the
enrollment rate for secondary schooling is 10
percentage points higher than the average, the
risk of war is reduced by about three percentage
points.
Every child, wherever they are, have the right to
an education but not all children get to exercise
this right. Join us as we strive to bring education
to children in the poorest communities around the
world. Learn more about how you can help:
www.idreamyouth.org .
Do you have a few more reasons why education
is important? We would love to hear them. Drop us
a note in the comment section below. |
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