Advocacy For Afric Education

An education provides people not only with the academic skills required, but also the social skills such as having the self confidence and belief in ones self to achieve a fulfilling and happy life. It is every child’s human right to receive such an education from early years to higher, and therefore several stages in which they must travel for this to happen.

Illita H (1996). Some Psychological Effects on Nigeria's Economic Couch on the Teachers and Consequently their understudies. The Counselors 14 (1): 39-40.

It is important to support the rights of all children to equality of access and participation as every child is entitled to the same opportunity of education, it is their

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, illuminates the essential rights that all children have. According to the Convention, each child has the privilege of education, it is the state 's obligation to guarantee that essential education is free and necessary, to allow distinctive types of secondary training, including general and professional training and to make them open to each child and to make advanced education accessible (United Nations, 1990). But as indicated by UNICEF, an expected 93 million kids on the planet don 't get the chance to go to school, the majority whom are girls. A large part of these children are poor and their families can 't stand to send them to school. They should work to help their families survive. Others, for the most part, young girls don 't go to school since they need to help at home. However, without an education, children and families are forced to lead an existence in poverty (UNICEF, 2015).

The proportion of children who are enrolled in primary schools has increased from 49% to 77% in the past decade in sub-Saharan Africa. This increase in enrollment is due mostly to the initiative of the governments from these regions to improve universal primary education. However, much remains to be done because even though enrollment has been made a possibility in a lot of these countries, there are a lot of other variables at play that still prevent children from receiving a quality education. Things such as poverty, cultural traditions, gender violence, and the incidence of early marriage are a major reason for disadvantaged groups, particularly poor girls, not making as much progress in enrolling

Africa: a continent that has gone through many hardships, but still is home to some of the strongest people, strongest morals, and strongest beliefs. Africa has been tested with so many trials, is strewn with poverty, and has been put through countless tribulations, but somehow manages to overcome all of it. The authors of these stories analyze these trials and how they overcame them. These stories showcase how Africa upholds well-armored values throughout their trials by examining their actions when fought with separation, exploring their strong religious beliefs, and analyzing how they value a better future. Africa was a separated, un-unified place, but valued, wanted, and acted to abolish this disunion.

Throughout his paper, Tooley shows problems that the public schools of Africa have. (Tooley 9) He shows the first problem by saying, “An estimated 40 million primary-school-age children in sub-Saharan Africa are not in school and in half of the countries less than 60% finish the full course of schooling.” (Tooley 9) Afterward, He gives the quote, “The United

“UNICEF Pleads For African Children Educational Rights.” Africa News Service, 20 Sept. 1999, p. 1008260u3868. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Accessed 8 Feb. 2017. Print.

Upon entering the exhibit the viewers will be presented with information that shows the immense diversity within the continent of Africa; this is shown through pictures. It is important to equip the viewers with general knowledge of Africa so they can go through the exhibit with a basic foundational understanding. The overall topic of the exhibit is the promotion of children's rights through the ACRWC's Articles 15 – 17. The Articles are the three major sub-themes; the right to work, health, and education. These three specific articles were chosen because of the impact they play in the development of African children. The right to education is the focal point of the sample module. The right to education is important for children;

Approximately 75 million children around the world have no opportunity to attend primary school. Of the 75 million, most of them are girls due to tradition or parents that hold them back from attending ("Main Navigation"). Other factors that affect children from going to school is because of conflicts and wars that result in schools to be destroyed and families to flee the country. Lack of education is a growing crisis due to many factors in developing countries but it has the power pull a country out of poverty and make them economically stable and attract other countries to trade, therefore it should be seen as a priority. Developed countries are involved to help countries increase their education because every child should have the

Wangari Maathai brought about this change with her Green Belt Movement. She felt that action needed to be taken to prevent rainfall from washing out vital crops that affected the communities in Kenya and other African countries. This movement not only brought on the planting of trees and crops throughout the land but it helped her to understand the problems that were arising in Kenya. This is where she learned of the corruption of the Kenyan government and how it was affecting her people. This is when she truly found that their needed to be action taken to make a change for Kenya.

As a result of poverty and marginalization, more than 72 million children around the world remain unschooled. Sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected area with over 32 million children of primary school age remaining uneducated. Central and Eastern Asia, as well as the Pacific, are also severely affected by this problem with more than 27 million uneducated children. In addition, these regions must also resolve continuing problems of educational poverty (a child in education for less than 4 years) and extreme educational poverty (a child in education for less than 2 years) (Omwami & Keller, 2010).

Education is considered as the critical software for development as it shapes the destiny for every society. Currently the initiative is driven by the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of Education for All. The MDG’s with direct reference to women education are Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education and Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women. This means that everybody in the society should be given a chance to attend school, women included (Anne Syomwene , 2015)

To elaborate more on kids seeing school as corrupt as said by Sarah Chayes, “In this context, many Nigerians see schooling less as a way to expand the mind or gain essential skills than as a way into a corrupt and abusive system.” (Chayes) They just see it as becoming a dirty civil worker that will make them into corrupt people and ruin others lives. Which is why Boko Haram is starting to make kids drop out of school. Which is not helping at all. Now girls that have escaped their wrath are trying hard to learn as much as they can to bring an end to this disaster. What they are doing is wrong and they taking away a whole generation of children

Basically, the UPE policy, focused in increasing student enrollment, which in turn increased students in schools from more than double in 1980s (Wedgwood, 2005). Once again, Tanzania