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If you haven’t been to a developing nation then it’s often hard to visualize extreme poverty and children living on the street, or working on the street and sleeping under a tarp or in a rock hovel at night with their siblings. These aren’t all orphaned children. Their parents simply have nothing to offer them. Normally the families will be uneducated and illiterate and in a lot of cases they don’t ask for anything for themselves but they want more for their children. What they really want is opportunity for them and by that they mean education.
We provide these children with a primary education. Taking children off the street and putting them into a classroom, with a local educated, certified teacher. They get a lunch everyday helping them to maintain healthy, so that they can learn to read and write and multiply.
In supporting their child’s education, we are really helping the community pull itself out of poverty.
If this program was not available for these children there would be little chance that they would be able to get into any type of schooling. Education is empowerment and it is the one thing we can leave behind for children today and we know that it is sustainable and we know that it has long lasting effects.
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