At ACCESS, we believe that education is the key to causing positive change in society, especially in the developing world. However, children in many parts of the developing world spend their childhood struggling to survive, without much hope for a secure, productive life.
They face incredible odds: of the 57 million people worldwide who died last year, 10.5 million of them were children under 5 years old. Treatable illnesses become life-threatening when combined with poverty, war, poor-sanitation, and inadequate health care.
For those who survive childhood, the path to a secure and happy future is still filled with obstacles. Children in developing nations have limited access to education, which limits opportunity and reduces potential.
Economic, social, and cultural factors keep 121 million children, especially girls, from attending school. Faced with difficult choices, parents often take girls out of school to care for younger siblings, help with household chores or work outside the home to contribute to family income.
In the world's least developed countries, only 14 percent of secondary school enrolment is female.
Non-profit organizations such as ACCESS provide both monetary aid to devolving nations along with global awareness of these issues. Through these groups we can do our part to change these shocking statistics and work toward universal education and an acceptable quality of life for all.
With files from Care.org
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