100 million children don't have access to an education.
That's 1 in 10 children school aged children.
Give An Education is a non-profit campaign building and supplying schools in developing nations. We use 100% of public donations to directly fund school building projects in areas of great need. Just $20 can take one children from the street and enroll them in a school.
Education
A basic education is the single most effective means of overcoming poverty, and reports show that over a quarter of school-aged children in the Andean region are not in schools. Complicating the education problem are staggering regional statistics on poverty from the World Bank: two out of every five children under the age of nine - some 43 million children - live on less than $2 a day, and over 70 percent fo the Andean region's population live below the poverty line.
The phenomenon of street children is global, alarming and escalating. Children who are uneducated and live on the street are targets. Poverty, family disintegration due to health or death, neglect, abuse or abandonment, and social unrest are all common triggers for a child's life on the streets.
Children At Risk
“Street children” is a term often used to describe both (1) children who work in the streets and markets of cities selling or begging, and live with their families, as well as (2) homeless street children who work, live and sleep in the streets, often lacking any contact with their families. At highest risk is the latter group. Murder, consistent abuse and inhumane treatment are the “norm” for these children, whose ages range from six to eighteen. They often resort to petty theft and prostitution for survival. They are extremely vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS. An estimated 90% of them are addicted to inhalants such as shoe glue and paint thinner, which cause kidney failure, irreversible brain damage and, in some cases, death.