social pharmacy d-pharm 1st year by Pragati K. Mahajan
Education in africa
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EDUCATION IN AFRICA
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16. http://www.freethechildren.com/get-involved/we-youth/resources/issues-
backgrounder/
Education
•150 million drop out of primary school before they have completed five years of
education- the minimum required for achieving basic literacy
•by 2003, only 37 out of 155 developing countries had achieved universal primary
school completion
•133 million young people around the world cannot read or write
•an estimated 57 million are not in school
•2/3 of the world’s illiterate adults are women
•when a woman has at least secondary education, her children are twice more likely
to survive than children born to less educated mothers
•AIDS spread twice as quickly among uneducated girls as among educated girls who
have received even some schooling
•Around the world today, more than 300,000 (World Bank) children are fighting as
child soldiers
•Illness and diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and tuberculosis prevent children from
being physically able to attend school
•About 1 in 10 school-aged girls in Africa drop out once they reach puberty because
they don’t have clean or private washrooms to use at school
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Human-Development-Index-
1970-2010-Hybrid-HDI-Education-Health-Income-Index-eleven-Africa.png
17. All children have the right to education
When a woman has at least secondary education, her children are twice
more likely to survive than children born less educated mother
57 million children are not in school
133 million young people around the world that can’t read nor write
two-thirds of the world’s illiterate adults are women
girls usually have an even harder time with education than boys
150 million people drop out of primary school before they have completed
five years of education- the minimum required for achieving basic literacy.
By 2003, only 37 out 115 developing countries had achieved universal
primary school completion
In North America, they believe that all children- boy or girl, rich or poor,
white, black, brown, yellow , red or blue- have the rights to education
without education, you can’t get a good job.