Access To Education In Sub-Saharan Africa

Education is something to cherish not something to take advantage of. In America we are lucky to have the many opportunities of education where other places education is not even an option for some. South Africa has the worst education system of the entire world. This is the biggest challenge the country faces and it needs to be at the top of all of the priority lists. Gender, social class, race, and religion are also factors that affect the possibility of having an education.

The girls are faced with threats and attacks everyday, mostly from terrorist groups. Pemanah, a 12 year old girl who studied at a community-based education center in Kandahar says, “The Taliban is near our house. If we go to school, they will kill us. If the government can provide security, we will be very interested to go to school.” (“Afghanistan: Girls Struggle For an Education”). The Taliban often use attacks with acid or methods of poisoning the schools water system to prevent the girls from going to school. These attacks are very common, which causes many parents to shy away from sending their daughters to receive an education. The attacks are so violent and aggressive that “The blood stains on the classroom walls couldn’t be washed away following the Taliban attack on the middle school in Postal Bazaar village in Afghanistan” (Sheppard 1). The security in Afghanistan has also worsened, which makes a girls chance of going to school even more slimmer than before. The schools are very out in the open, and it draws the terrorist groups like a moth to a flame. 41% of all schools in Afghanistan do not have buildings, which makes these areas even more prone to attacks. (“Girls Access to Education in Afghanistan”). The government and terror groups have created a sense of fear for the Afghan families, which stops anyone from wanting to put their daughters into schools.

My charity’s name is Afghanistan Women Employment Agency. We are working toward giving women in Afghan jobs. Many Women in Afghan struggle with getting jobs because they don’t all have a good education or they never went to school. The website trustineducation said, “Only 40% of Afghan girls attend elementary school, and only one in 20 girls attend school beyond the sixth grade.” Hearing this made me feel angry on the inside because education is the most important thing to have in your life. Even though education was a huge factor in life the women that were well educated didn’t always get a job. When women are married in Afghan they are married young. Budd MacKenzie said on his website “Almost 60% of girls are married by 16. Women activists say up to 80 percent of marriages in poor rural areas are either forced or arranged.” Putting this sentence and my knowledge on Afghanistan together made me think why women were not employed.

The state of education in Sub-Saharan Africa is in crisis. UNICEF (2013) research has shown that 40 million children in Africa currently do not attend school. The enrollment figures indicate that there are fewer educational opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa than in the five countries in the northern part of the continent. More than 100 million children of primary school age do not attend school worldwide, of which a vast majority of these children are in sub-Saharan Africa (UNICEF, 2013). However, the research also shows that even if these children could attend school, the existing schools are not equipped to provide for them (Samhoff, 2003). Rampant poverty, economic turmoil, and disease have taken over the sub-Saharan countries.

Children from Canada and other first world countries are fortunate enough to be able to attend free schooling facilities with the proper educational tools and infrastructure (in terms of classroom sizes). Schools are a short walk away. Many children in their teenage years that live in first world countries have likely never questioned their right to go to school. Sadly, many children in Afghanistan are not able to attend school. In fact, only 28% of the adult population in Afghanistan is literate. 42% of Afghan children do not have access to proper schooling facilities as there are very few and located far away from some children’s homes. Between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban restricted all women from going to school. They even stopped female teachers from coming to their job every

Historically, working class groups have been excluded from participating in higher education. For the last couple of decades, there have been noticeable changes towards a more inclusive system of higher education, but statistics show that the participation of working - class in higher education remains persistently low. Can higher education be seen as unattractive for the working class, or are the fees charged by institutions used as a tool to exclude students from working-class backgrounds? This essay examines issues related to access to higher education by students from different social classes, the costs involved and the value of education to people coming from various backgrounds.

There are roughly three and a half billion girls on planet earth. If each one of these women had an education, one can only imagine the potential of the world. Violent conflicts in developing countries disrupt girls access to education by creating a dangerous learning environment and lead to future problems within countries due to the lack of women with an education. This disruption causes even more political and social destruction within countries and can carry on into global matters making this a worldwide problem that impacts everyone.

Global inequalities are the things that society identifies as not equal and unfair. There are many inequalities in Kenya including income, life expectancy, education, water, gender and poverty inequalities. Although these are negative problems, opportunities in Kenya have shown improvement as people are starting to make a difference by sending more people to school and giving children education they need and also food and water for people to survive. Amnesty International and Unicef are all apart of the world trying to make a difference. Amnesty International is the world’s largest and most-respected human rights organisation. Amnesty campaigns against abuse of human rights around the world. The other NGO that I have chose is UNICEF who promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child in the world.

Not enough children or adults are receiving the education they need in order to be successful. It’s unfair that we are receiving that education while the children in Africa are poor and are looking for materials in order to survive. Education is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school. If you think about it that if people around the world knew information or about the world, we may be able to solve world's problems.

At a global scale, millions of children worldwide still lack access to education due to their economic status, gender discrimination, and tradition. Especially the regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, girls in both regions do not have schools that are available to them. In Greg Mortenson’s novel, Stones into Schools, he makes change happen by building schools through a non-governmental organization he co-founded the Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit whose mission is to build schools with a focus on educating girls and promoting peace through education. He creates an environment for girls in both regions to have access to education and gain new skills. One of the book's themes is the suppression of women in these regions. Mortensen explains that the root of the problem was the Taliban because ever since they took over in 1993, they opposed many

“ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (Mandela, 2003). It shapes who we are and gives us the fundamentals of life. In the United Nations Convention on rights of a child article 28 states:“all children have the right to a good quality education” (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1990). but why haven’t we achieved that? There are many reasons why but we will look at those later. First, it is appropriate to look at the cultures in India, Sierra Leone and Pakistan.

All over the world children are going to school, they are learning and making friends. In some parts of the world some children are denied their basic human right of education. In Pakistan girls are not allowed to go to school. Someone who experienced this first hand and then wrote a book about it is Malala. She encouraged many to speak up on this topic the way she did. At the end of her book Malala says, “This is my dream. Education for every boy and girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my book with all my friends at school is my right” (Yousafzai 313). Just like it is Malala’s right it is also every boy’s and girl’s right, but still in parts of the world girls are denied the right to education and to attend school.

The women of Afghanistan are experiencing human rights violations. The Afghan government has been making efforts to give girls an education since 2001, but efforts failed and now 85 percent of Afghan girls don't attend school. Liesl Gerntholtz, a women's rights director at Human Rights Watch says, “The Afghan government and donors made bold promises in 2001 to get all girls into education, but insecurity, poverty, and displacement are driving many girls out of school” (Afghanistan 1). The lack of education violates Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This article says, “ You have the right to go to school.” (Article 26). Meanwhile, the girls of Afghanistan are

In the past years, there have been more people raising awareness of the lack of basic education for children around the world. This stems from differences ranging from sex to to cultural identity, some other reasons that there is a lack of education is because of war going on in a country, lack of people to teach, and some communities just do not have the funds to send their children to school. Due to the lack of basic education for some children, the overall world is at a great disadvantage. This is because some children who are not getting the education they need, are not learning. Some of the children who do not have the luxury of education could be the smartest children in the world but no one would know because the children would not know how to express their knowledge. This is the child who could cure cancer or solve the hardest equations. Girls have the least access to education, they make up over half of the unschooled population in the world. Over 40% of children who are living in poverty are not ready for primary schooling, this means that the 40% is not even smart enough to enter grade school, they cannot even read or write. The connection between race and graduation rates are very high as well. Children all over the world are lacking basic education due to various reasons. The lack of basic education in countries around the world is shocking.

Education inequality is an unequal distribution of academic’s resources, including but not limited to; school funding, qualified, and experienced teachers, books, and technologies to socially excluded communities. It has grown over the last 30 years and still is. This essay will investigate the gender education inequality going to focus on an underdeveloped continent, Africa and how women are treated unfairly in education and are denied the rights that affect their education in life itself. One of the fundamental rights everyone should have access to education as it’s said to be for everyone. ……….