Education plays a significant role to release a child from poverty. An educated child is equipped with tools to fight poverty and bring development. A school is a place where many children go to for their development in skills and know people.Often those children who cannot finish high schools are lured into drugs and gang.

Some to be known facts about education :
On the International Day of the Girl, progress were made in girls’ education, remaining challenges, and evidence on what works to help ensure gender equality in education. As of 2012, 31 million primary-school pupils worldwide dropped out of school. An additional 32 million repeated a grade.While girls are less likely to begin school, boys are more likely to repeat grades or drop out altogether.children from the wealthiest 20 percent of the population are four times more likely to be in school than the poorest 20 percent.In developing, low-income countries, every additional year of education can increase a person’s future income by an average of 10 percent.53 percent of the world’s out-of-school children are girls and two-thirds of the illiterate people in the world are women.Education empowers women to make healthy decisions about their lives. For example, women in Mali with a secondary level education or higher have an average of 3 children, while those with no education have an average of 7.
Childhood in 'Third World' countries has many facets and for the majority of
children differs from that in industrialized countries.
There is the minority of children mainly from the upper social classes, who
grow up like little princes and princesses, surrounded by servants from the
poorer segments of society. These servants are often commanded around, they
a re, as a sociologist from El Salvador termed it, cheaper than washing
machines and accordingly treated with less care. These children often grow up
in a world full of luxury, nourished by the sharp social differences within
'Third World' countries, and in a world of imported technology which is
supposed to help them to a profession later on in their lives. Another minority
of children of the upper and middle classes start kindergarten at the age of 3 or
4 in order to get prepared for a better start at school. They are supposed to get
used to school discipline and to acquire knowledge relevant for school at the
earliest age possible, as is the case in the Cameroons.
For most children in the South childhood is a period of quickly growing into
little adults. At the age of 4, girls start to assume household tasks, take care of
their little brothers and sisters, to replace their mother in the house when she
is engaged in agricultural work or help her with field work, livestock and
handicraft work.
- Voice of the girls denied from education
"I have this privilege to go university. I fight so that all my sisters are able to go to school, not only in Mali, but throughout the world. We know that we girls are the ones to end poverty."
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