Spread the Word
Everyone knows that education is important, but just how valuable is it really? Here we have ten snappy, bite-sized facts for you to tell your friends, your family, or even your government representative!
1) Did you know that the number of children out of school is larger than the total population of New York City, London, Beijing, Mumbai, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Cairo put together? That’s 72 million children! And 54% of them are girls!
2) About 40 billion hours are spent each year collecting water in sub-Saharan Africa. Do you know who’s fetching the water? Girls. Evidence has linked the lack of girls in school to the lack of basic water services.
3) It’s a shame because for every year of extra schooling you give a girl, she can increase her income by as much as 20%.That's quite a pay-rise!
4) If 50 developing countries offered girls the same secondary school opportunities as boys the economic dividend for these countries would amount to over $100bn annually; this is over twice as much as these same countries currently get in aid each year
5) So, how much more would it cost the world to provide basic education in low income countries? About $16 billion a year. (That is less than 1% of what the world spent on its military in 2009!)
6) But isn’t the world in an economic crisis? Yes, and education is the safest investment to make right now. It never devalues! And in 2009, global unemployment is predicted to rise by 60 million. Right now, the world is desperate for 7 million new teachers (2010 - 2015).
7) If we do put every child behind a desk, what other benefits does the world get apart from a higher income? Well, 7 million cases of HIV/AIDS could be prevented in the next decade if every child received an education.
8) Education also helps women survive pregnancy and their children survive infancy. When they learn about personal health, hygiene, the power of immunizations, and the importance of pre-natal care, women’s life expectancy sky rockets! And a child born to a literate mother is 50% more likely to make it past the age of 5.
9) What else? Education helps promote peace and stability, not to mention teaches people to protect their environment and stave off climate change.
10) But the main advantage is that education beats poverty! One extra year of good, quality schooling for a country can increase its average GDP growth by nearly 0.5%, and lift earnings by 10%. That’s a huge leap that could lift millions out of destitution!
Assalaamu Alaikum, Al-hamdu-lillah you are doing a great work of what ALLAH has insisted us to do. Mam i'm from india who is also working for poor people's education since we students have formed a small group in our locality we are collecting money from others and helping the poor to get proper education. I need some ideas and advices to get enough financial support to help the poor in all ways as ALLAH ordered. If you need any information about us please lemme know with details. Hoping for a positive feedback.
Your Highness Queen Rania:
What a great discovery. That's precisely the reason why as an educator, am looking for opportunities, as seeking philantrophic groups, who can assist me put up educational institutions here in the philippines that will uplift our out of school youth and children. ours is a developing country. THIS IS EMIE FLORES.
wiil it is clear that is all right but is it practically to aplay .
no because when you talk about women and education you are talking about culture changeing and it is what the world Suffer from because you cant change an undearstanding of million of years in a day or two
and when we talk about economy and it is crisis it all talk just to be true that there is no such thing that called econmy crisis it only a thing that the majer coprative invinted it to so the have the reason to fire as much employes as they can so they can increase their income . it is not about investment and also why do they think about investing their mony in education ... they will say
1 it talks alot of time
2 there is no Guarantee for the income
3 fear of that they teach some one and that one tuerns over them .
but the truth is that
1 they does not want it because it will give manychanse for othersw to gorw it deos not work out for them
2 they will have no over controll over the income of they others and the will be spearatede from them
3 this will rune every single unleagal prouduction in he world if every one know how it is .
why on milltary the anserw do you want us to be invaid but it them who promots these ideas and also who fund them
hiv and aids will where all the Medicine co. do if theres no hiv or aids who are they going to put on test .
and to come to poverty we are talking about facing one of the biggist unhealtiest indestreis of the world and it is tobaco and it is greats selling is to poor people because they till them talk a smoke it will make you feel good ...and do not forget about drugs to ......etc
so the real this if we want to spread education around the world we will have to deal wi the main issues that we are over controlled by the Industrial
ways .
and to over come it we will have to face these ideas and put a stop for them
and i am sorry your majesty for may way of words or what it sound but i am talking about the realistc view of what we face
You Majesty Queen Rania,
I will do all I can to help
Sincerely,
Ashley Brown, the United State
Your Highness Rania,
As a well educated pedigog and multi-cultural writer, I do agree that education is the key to betterment of cultures and it's people. Through education people are able to see other points of view and make decisions about their futures simply because they know about their choices. " Knowledge is Power" is an understatement. Keeping people uneducated is a form of control. This cycle can only be broken through education and self enlightenment. Not only does education help oneself, it also empowers multicultural facets and understanding. Bless you in all you do.
Sincerely,
LDuncan Hartgraves, educator and author of Just Shades Of Brown
Distinguished Queen Rania:
Receive from Dominican Republic, a cordial greeting.
My name is Maria Teresa Perez, I'm from Dominican Republic, I have a degree in Early Childhood Education and currently I am doing a Masters in the U.S. When I see your photos and what you are doing for the children and people in need, you've become my example to follow. You are a wonderful person and worthy of admiration.
When I return to my country I intend to work with children who have no opportunity is My Greatest Desire to Contribute with the Children of my country Improving Their Living Conditions in my country and giving them opportunities to get a good education to enable them to become professionals.
It would be a great honor for me to know you and would be an honor for my country that you go there.
Sincerely Maria Teresa Perez
Knowledge is the key of the world! He who forgets that past is doomed to repeat it.
Children are our futures! Lets don't cut them short!
Better education does not make the world a better place, better people make the world a better place. Sure education may make you more money, give you a cushy job, allow you to write snappier soundbites, but do you honestly think the world will be better off with this kind of single-minded focus on education? For example, education in the hands of mean and corrupt persons gives them the tools to write more effective and damaging articles, vastly helps to promote their self-interests at the expense of others, and lastly, gives them the air of being right (even though what they are doing is evil). Evil being the absence of good. Please allow me to rant: Now, you'll probably suggest that the best way to solve this problem is to educate more good people than bad people, right?-like majority rules. OK. So then what happens when the bad people counteract this imbalance by becoming even more educated then the good? Well your only option is to raise the bar on education, and educate to a greater level the good people. Alright, so what's to stop the bad people from raising their education too? In this scenario, the world doesn't get any better, you're simply changing the playing-field for a different venue, rather than focusing on changing the game altogether. End of rant.
Education is the foundation of life and to not be able to get a decent education is scarring for the country or family you wish to represent...I am very happy that you are taking an interest not only in the education of your own people but as a child taking an interest in my education as well. With your help children who don't have a chance will be given one and they will use it to succeed and discover the greatness within them!!
education is the core of the countries development , am really feel bad when i see some student just escape from school and their families agree with that ,am really ready to spend all my time and effort to improve the primary education in Jordan and give those student the chance to learn and discover their self and great abilities they have.
Great efforts . Really , child education specially involving girls would go a long way in overcoming the whole gamut of problems .