Education

Social Injustice

1.    The name of issue

Education

2.   A summary background of the issue

 All people, in Jomtien, Thailand, pledged to achieve universal primary education by 2000. But in 2000, 104 million school-age children were still not in school, 57 percent of them were girls and 94 percent were in developing countries - mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

3.   Details about the issue/ why the situations occur

Primary education should be free and available to everyone all over the world.

 It is important that everyone gets the rights to education so they can have

options as individual for work. Some children do not get the education they need.

4.  What can be done about the issue (who is currently doing something)

-      People/Charities could sponsor teachers to fly over to Africa and give the people a GOOD education! 

-      Over 860 million people in the world can’t read and 66% are women and 61% are from China, India, Bangladesh or Pakistan.

-      In 41 countries in the world the education rights for children to go to primary school have dropped since 2000.

-      Over 103.5 million children, primary school aged, are not enrolled in school. Nearly 57% are girls.

-      There is a worldwide shortage of school teachers.