Educate Hope
The Education Project is setting out to create access to quality education by improving education facilities, providing school supplies, and training teachers in the developing world. Something as simple as a uniform can prevent a child from ever having access to education. Additionally many children have no means to purchase pencils or notebooks. And often, many teachers in developing nations don't have much, if any, teacher training. The Education Project is setting out to change this!
Education enhances lives and is one of the primary tools needed to give children a chance at breaking the cycle of poverty for their own generation. By creating sustainable development, basic education will better equip girls and boys with knowledge and skills needed to adopt healthy lifestyles, to protect themselves from diseases, and to take an active role in social, economic and political decision-making as they transition to adolescence and adulthood. As educated adults, they will be more equipped to pass on quality decision making processes to the generations they will be leading.
For us in the western world, it is hard to believe that nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. That's almost 1 in every 6 people. And, a lack of access to equitable education continues to be a growing problem today.This stems from multiple variables both cultural and financial in nature. Millions of children are not allowed the privilege of education due to a lack of financial resources needed to provide uniforms, shoes, school supplies, and on a larger scale, school buildings. The means for survival in some communities, mean that children will bear the brunt of the labor needed for basic family needs. Such inequalities exclude millions of children, particularly girls, from school or condemn them to educational experiences of very poor quality.
There is an old proverb that states, "give a child a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a child to fish and you feed him for a life".
