Education in Third World Countries
As of 2014, 115 million children who are primary-school age were not enrolled in third world countries according to Academic Exchange. Education in developing countries is a big problem in the modern world. Fortunately, there are many organizations dedicated to reducing these number such as A World At School. Without education, we have nothing. And as one of the most advanced countries in the world, is it not our duty to end this ignorance?
An article entitled “Sara’s Story Makes Me Angry About Education Failings In Poorest Countries by Chernor Bah claimed that in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, there is a girl named Sara. Sara is the oldest of eight children. She left her hometown in rural Ethiopia to travel in search of a better education. Sara travelled to Addis at the age of sixteen, hoping to move to the U.S. Sara went to Syria and learned Arabic but after three years, she realized that she had become nothing more than a domestic servant. So, she made her way back to her home country and has been going to school for several years. She decided to ask a Chernor Bah, a Chair of the Youth Advocacy Group, why it was so hard in poor countries to be educated. According to Chernor Bah, the question haunted him. Statistics he found left him, as he said, “Downtrodden and Infuriated”. According to him, it will not be until the year 2086 that the poorest girls in world will all have access to education. As of 2014, only 23% of rural girls in the sub-Saharan Africa complete primary school.
A World At School is a project launched in 2013 dedicated to protecting human and gender rights in third world countries, as well as preventing child labor and promoting health. However, their main concern is education for people in these countries. They have hundreds of supporting organizations and are currently campaigning in 85 countries. They have office locations in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. They offer a number of resources but mostly contribute volunteers to help teach in these countries. To help, people can become a volunteer, a part of their special Youth Ambassador group, or just support their #UpForSchool movement by downloading one of their action packs.
There are people in the world who are in unwinnable situations. People who can’t learn to read or write because of their skin color, or their gender. As a privileged society, many would consider it a duty to help bring about a new era of peace and understanding
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Works Cited
"15 Facts about Education in Third World Countries." Academic Exchange. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2016. <https://academicexchange.wordpress.com/2014/03/
06/15-facts-on-education-in-developing-countries/>.
Bah, Chernor. "Sara’s Story Makes Me Angry About Education Failings In Poorest Countries." Sara’s Story Makes Me Angry About Education Failings In Poorest Countries. Chernor Bah, 6 Feb. 2014. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.
"A World at School." A World at School. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2016.
<http://www.aworldatschool.org/>