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Education is something that plays a huge role in the world we live in today. If you receive a good education, you can get very far in life. Most people have the dream of one day owning their own business and/or having their dream job, but some people don’t have the luxury of having this path laid out right in front of them. In some of the very poor countries, like Haiti, receiving a quality education is hard. Unlike in the United States, education in Haiti is an honor. Education is not a top priority in Haiti because they have so many economic issues. Most of the population of Haiti never had the chance to attend school, and then out of the ones that did most dropped out and never made it to primary school. The poor families in Haiti need their children to work instead of attending class. This is just the beginning on understanding how the economy in Haiti affects the amount of schooling children receive.

Like any quality of life, there will always be effective issues that prevent people from reaching their goals in life, like education. As in Asia, farming is the main economic activity, but it requires lots of workers and nowaday children have to join their family’s work. Farming life is very ponderous and it partially affects the child’s education progress. Among Asia, many Southwest countries do not have the learning opportunity available for them, but mostly they were being held away from education by poverty, child labor, slavery, and worse family issues that basically banned them from reaching for a better future. Learning opportunity is not evenly distribute among Asia. While LDC countries like Bangladesh, India have found it difficult to build enough schools for serving their enormous population, developed countries like Korea and Japan gradually improve their literacy rate. In some religion, women do not have the right to receive education which lowered the value of women. In order to change this belief, the government offer schools for women and men separately like in Korea, Japan, China, and India. Even though education was well-performed in some Asians countries, but on a negative impact, parents used the opportunity to pressure on the

A current problem in Haiti that Free The Children is focusing on is education. Following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that destroyed Haiti on January 12th, 2010; hundreds of school buildings were destroyed and the education system was left wrecked. This is affecting society because currently Haiti’s literacy rate is 62% and only less than half of the country’s children attend school. About 37% of students actually reach the sixth grade out of the 60% of the students that enroll. Free The Children is currently working in an area where 90% of the schools built are built by community-based, non-governmental, and/or religious organizations that are trying to rebuild the education system.

In January of 2015, I experienced a mission trip in Guatemala. Although the trip taught me a lot about both myself, and the people and culture of Guatemala, one of the more prominent realizations I had was that the Guatemalan children had so little resources to get a quality education in life, yet they were still eager to learn. For example, each child was required to wear a pair of black dress shoes to school. Since many could not afford to pay for these shoes, they each walked to the missionary compound, no matter how far, to get a free pair of shoes that were offered. Additionally, many of the kids were more inclined to attend a short church lesson after eating dinner than play with their friends. After experiencing this dramatic change

My mother has worked for a similar project as it is “Children of Haiti Project.” La Casa de los Niños is an institution with similar objectives though is located in Tirrases de Curridabat. They helped needed children in education and physiological means. When I have gone there, I have seen the importance of education in children. One of the most, if not the most important thing that someone may lend is education. The fact that I have gone to a institution with similar goals as CHOP, make me feel somehow familiar with what I could face. As a member of the last year team told in the presentation given last Thursday, you practically fall in love with those children. The times I have gone to the institution my family helps, it is amazing how friendly and well educated needed children are. From what I have lived in Costa Rica, I am more than excited and expecting to see the thankful CHOP’s children been describen by the generation

Countless children in need everywhere around the World do not get a quality education where they can learn and develop who they are going to be when they get older. Education is a crucial right, which gives permission to each person to acquire instructions and blossom socially in the society. The right to a proper education is critical for the economic, social, and cultural advancement of all societies. Education requires that its citizens promote an assortment of knowledge. Education is also known to consist of a form of learning that is unavoidable for the development of one’s personality and the type of character they are, as well as substantial and creative capabilities. Education is an individual right which is an obligation to be accessible to everyone in the society, without any discrimination. All children must be able to get an education, and be accountable for the same opportunities to build a future for themselves. Educational information must be equally administered, so that children from disadvantaged

“Education leads to a brighter future.” Quite a clichéd phrase, actually. So popular, that people tend to forget the true significance of it. It is known that Latin America faces numerous problems that makes looking into the future a discouraging view; but we fail to realize the lack of education may be the root of these issues, including violence, unemployment and poverty. Even though education is widely available in Latin America, people are not yet engrained with the idea that education can be a facilitator for a superior life. Economic issues that stem from unemployment and poverty have led to the notion that education is wasted time that could be better spent

Brazil’s federal government controls the country’s education through the Ministry of Education. The federal government gives educational guidelines to each of its states. Each individual state must enforce the requirements and implement the guidelines. Brazil’s education system includes private and public sector schools. While the public sector of schooling is free of cost , the private sector is extremely costly. Similar to the United States, the school career of children includes several stages in Brazil. They system is broken up into Elementary school, high school, and higher education . The first stage in Brazil is elementary school also known as Ensino Fundamental, this is for children of the ages six to fourteen. After elementary school they progress into high school known as Ensino Medio in Brazil. This is for teens of age fifteen to seventeen. After the completion of highschool, individuals who wants to and who can afford it, may seek further education known as Ensino Superior. Although schooling is a requirement for children up until the age of fourteen, the law isn’t heavily enforced because many children in the rural areas of Brazil may have to to quit schooling and find work in order to provide enough money for their

Teachers are the mediators for the information that students receive. When teachers are not adequately prepared in their profession it defeats the whole propose of why teachers exist to begin with. In an article titled, “Gender Equality in Education in Latin America Despite Poverty” it states, “Raising the quality of education for girls and women in the region now means reforming the school system from top to bottom for all students. What is required is better trained and better paid teachers, more local control, clear standards or performance and more money”. There is a huge need to prepare teachers in this region not just for their own personal development but for the betterment of the future of many of these students specifically for girls and women because they are the main targets that are constantly oppress in society. Susan claims that literacy rates have steadily increased but the lack of education among women still remains a problem. She states “While basic literacy has soared in much of Latin America in recent decades…pockets of illiteracy remain…boys are still viewed as more important as an economic factor in society” (2). Teachers are responsible for the future of the students but it would be hypocritical of me to blame them when their own government has not intervened in their preparation. An article titled, “Education and Inequality in Latin America” provides visual representation of the education gap in Latin America. It states, “In Brazil, one third of teachers barely passed high school…in Mexico, 70% of teachers failed the National Teacher Examination”. It is evident that the government does not have in their best interest the education and future of the students when they are not adequately and successfully preparing the mediator of

There are approximately 25 students per teacher in the schools of Ecuador. Approximately 91 percent of adults and 96 percent of the youth, are able to read and write. Even though the literacy rate is high, most Ecuadorians drop out of school around the age of 15. With this said, the number of people graduating from school is increasing. With the rising graduation rate, comes a rising number of people entering college. Ecuador has a decent education system, and it continues to get better through people staying in school for the entire length to graduate. Ecuador is helping itself get better in the future by pushing people to get a better education. By building new schools, and increasing the opportunities for an education, Ecuador has opened the door for young citizens to become leaders in the future. (Gottlieb

Growing up, people always called me the “smart one.” I read books all the time, earned high grades, participated (and did well) in multiple academic University Interscholastic League events, and even made a twenty-five on the ACT at twelve years old. The first time that I did not know what I was doing academically, I felt like a horrendous failure.

In third world countries, education is difficult to receive and to teach. This is because there could be no classrooms, lack of funding, little learning materials, country at risk of conflict, and the distance from home to school. Children who live in a country or area

In June of 2016, I studied abroad in Ecuador, traveling through the coastal lowlands over the highlands, and into the Amazon rainforest. One of my first field trips was exploring the city of Guayaquil. We drove out north from the city center and past the gated communities. We stopped at María de Nazaret, a small catholic school. This school is located in the suburbio of Flor de Bastión, and provides local children with an education. I previously read about these suburbios in my urban studies classes, but actually being there and hearing from the people who live there was eye opening, and woke a responsibility in me. Following this trip I gained an interest in pursuing a graduate education in Latin American Studies, in order to attain the knowledge and understanding necessary to make an impact.

Early childhood education lays the foundation for future success. Therefore, primary education is a basic right that every child should be entitled to. However, in sub-Saharan Africa, one in five children received a primary education in the past and the proportions have considerably increased now to 59%. But even with this considerable increase to children who receive a primary education, literacy rates haven’t improved due to the inadequate quality of education. Therefore, lack of an adequate primary education is a problem in sub-Saharan Africa because it causes low literacy rates that harm the overall welfare of those countries and it could be best solved with a better internal education system and some external monetary aid.

Education comes with social benefits as well which can improve the situation of the poor, such as lower fertility and improved health care of children ("Poverty and Education"). "Poor people are often unable to obtain access to an adequate education, and without an adequate education people are often constrained to a life of poverty." - Servaas Van Der Berg. The absolutely poor in developing countries have low education levels. Some may not even have access to primary education or may not have completed their primary education, not realizing that it is important to reduce poverty. Education is often poorly measured, and the impacts do not always show up as statistically significant in cross- country growth regressions (Levine & Renelt, 1992). Africa’s education crisis makes media headlines and analysis by the Brookings Center for Universal Education (CUE) explains why this needs to change. Progress towards universal primary education has come to a halt and learning levels of children who are in school are poor as well. Using a Learning Barometer, CUE estimates that 61 million African children will reach adolescence lacking even the most basic literacy and numeracy skills, this will deprive a whole generation of opportunities to develop and escape poverty ("Poverty, Education, & Opportunity").