Education in Developing Countries #3

Global Issues in Context:
Developing countries and Education

• 64% of children in South-Sahara Desert are in primary school
• child labor is the top cause for little to no education
• Asia has 122 million children working for little wages in fields and factories
• MDG: Millenium Development Goals- eight goals to decrease poverty, hunger, disease, maternal-infant mortality, education, women’s rights, and healthy enviornment
• education can be too expensive and religious or customary acts don’t let girls be in primary school.
• ⅓ of India is illiterate and 70 million children have no education.  THere is now a law that all children 6-14 must attend school- this is very expensive for the government and may be too expensive
• The Taliban in Afghanistan threatens schools and teachers. 4 million do not go to school because they are so scared
• Chile now offers grants and student loans through a 4 billion dollar education fund.  there were still people saying that this was not good enough and took part in a peaceful protest.

1-3 Questions:

1. What will be done to get these children out of child labor?
2. How do girls survive in life in places where they have no education?
3. How many kids total are there in the world without education?

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