Education
Where does this issue fit into the Millennium Goals?
Millennium Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education - The target is for all children, boys and girls, to complete a full course of primary schooling.
How does this issue affect people?
A good education is one of the most basic rights of the child. Without one, a child is immediately disadvantaged and far less likely to achieve their true potential. Nor is it enough simply to send a child to school - although millions of children are not even given this. What, how and when they are taught is what lies at the heart of true education.
The benefits of education are enormous - a lot more far reaching than just gaining valuable reading and writing skills.
Consider some of these facts:
Young people who have completed primary education are less than half as likely to contract HIV as those missing an education. Universal primary education would prevent 700,000 cases of HIV each year, almost 30% of all new infections in this age group.
If you keep a girl in school, you help her change the course of her life, that of her future family, and an entire nation. A girl who goes to school and stays there is much more likely to postpone marriage and childbirth. Those decisions have a dramatic ripple effect. Later childbirth results in lowering the overall fertility rate, which means higher per capita income and the increased ability of a woman to earn a living for herself and her family. And educated women provide better health care for themselves and their children, meaning lower maternal and infant mortality rates. In fact, a country's investment in education leads to a whole host of results that promote economic and social development.
If you want an example, take a look at parts of Asia. South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia not too long ago (back around 1950) looked a good deal like sub-Saharan Africa does today, statistically speaking. They were in the same state in terms of economics, literacy, health care and fertility rates. How did these so-called Asian tigers do it? Through education - particularly the education of girls. It's a simple and well-documented fact.
Information on this page was researched and collated with the help of Oxfam Australia, Make Povery History, Save The Children & the Mothers Day Report Card 2005
An innovative grassroots program to break poverty cycle through education. Help to ensure a regular supply of the basics - pens, paper, writing books and textbooks (computers are unheard of) to the 11,900 children attending school in the impoverished Sotang district.
Project cost
0AUD 19,402
33
Raised from 33 people
Latest donation: AUD 1.00
2 days ago from a Temando.com customer
The Quality Education program in Nele and Sotang, some of the poorest regions of rural Nepal, will help to ensure that all children have access to primary education. This project builds on 4 years of grass roots educational support in the region.
Project cost
0AUD 33,134
14,665
Raised from 6,489 people
The project will train 150 teachers in 10 communities on child rights and protection to prevent violence against children in the Efate and Santo provinces of Vanuatu.
AUD 28,017
Raised from 12,518 people
Training 380 school teachers in the Sotang region of Nepal to help improve the education of over 11,500 students in over 260 schools.
AUD 31,060
Raised from 13,715 people
This project will improve the education facilities and learning environment for 68 children through the construction of a new classroom in Teniete Hugo Ortiz Community School and refurbishment of a roof in Felipe Moscoso Community School.
AUD 5,001
Raised from 2,070 people
Informal mentoring and training activities for young Indigenous people aged 10-18 in Kununurra and surrounding communities that focuses on increasing young people’s motivation and ability to make positive life choices, through a range of activities in order to improve long-term health outcomes.
AUD 32,764
Raised from 14,092 people
Training a group of 290 teachers that will help to improve the education of over 11,500 students in over 65 schools in the Khumbu region of Nepal in 2009/10.
AUD 39,801
Raised from 17,022 people
Training a group of 40 key teachers to be teacher trainers to improve the education of more than 12,000 kids in over 130 schools in the Solu Khumbu Himalayan region of Nepal.
AUD 20,541
Raised from 7,723 people
Help equip and furnish two community pre-schools schools, build play equipment and develop culturally relevant teaching materials to improve education and create opportunities to break the poverty cycle.
AUD 18,120
Raised from 4,200 people
Teachers in rural government schools make below a living wage, leading them to have low rates of attendance. The Teacher Livelihoods program supplements monthly salaries with rice and food support in exchange for high attendance.
AUD 6,910
Raised from 2,264 people
Build a concrete-wooden school with 3 rooms and a teachers house to improve education for 90 families in this remote farming village, Stung Treng Province.
AUD 42,734
Raised from 16,231 people
Training about 190 Nepalis as teachers, greatly improving teaching and education standards, that in turn increase opportunities for more than 4,000 children about 70 schools, and also providing specific mentoring, education quality, and resource assistance to those schools.
AUD 38,500
Raised from 12,715 people
One year's safe accommodation, educational assistance and protection from abuse for girl children of sex workers.
AUD 28,962
Raised from 9,801 people
Training a group of 45 Key teachers to be teacher trainers to improve and lengthening the education of more than 8,000 kids in 120 schools in the Solu Khumbu Himalayan Region.
AUD 19,502
Raised from 7,661 people
Repairs, painting and minor construction work to improve the learning environment for 90 students, plus a teacher's salary for one year.
USD 4,127
Raised from 1,735 people
Build a concrete-wooden school with 3 rooms and a teachers house to improve education for 102 families in this remote farming village, Stung Treng Province.
AUD 24,127
Raised from 9,174 people
Repairs, painting and minor construction work to improve the learning environment for 175 students
USD 2,791
Raised from 1,173 people
Training 30 Nepali “Key Teachers” to be teacher-trainers and mentors themselves to 300 teachers, to improve teaching and learning levels, improve retention rates and lengthen the education of more than 4,100 kids .
AUD 14,501
Raised from 5,510 people
Safe accommodation, educational assistance and protection from abuse for girl children of sex workers.
AUD 28,961
Raised from 11,380 people
Improve health outcomes by facilitating learning and literacy opportunities through music. The project will provide musical instruments/equipment for an after-hours music program for remote Indigenous youth.
AUD 18,002
Raised from 7,022 people
To purchase chairs, desks and books as well as technology equipment for the recently renovated village primary school in the Mai Chau district.
USD 2,001
Raised from 880 people
Training, refresher course, and supervising (throughout the year) of a group of approximately 300 teachers: to greatly improve teaching and learning levels and skills, improve retention rates, and lengthen the education of nearly 4,000 kids in about 70 schools.
AUD 14,100
Raised from 5,419 people
To provide stationary and educational resources to approx.105 Class 1-5 children and teachers in the Kumaon Himalayan villages of Khati and Jatoli.
AUD 503
Raised from 176 people
Provide desks, chairs and educational materials to approximately 50 HIV affected orphans in the Wat Thmei Orphange, Siem Reap.
AUD 500
Raised from 178 people
Provide two sign language interpreters to work full time at the Gospel School High School in Suva, to allow students to complete schooling.
AUD 9,844
Raised from 3,784 people
Training of a group of 160-180 teachers to greatly improve teaching and learning skills, boost retention rates, and expand the education of nearly 4,000 kids in 65 schools across the Solukhumbu Himalaya region, Nepal.
AUD 13,805
Raised from 5,177 people
Build desks, refurbish classrooms and install water tanks and guttering at Kiwanje Ndege Primary School in Kenya.
USD 1,509
Raised from 679 people
Provide box of educational books & stationery for 2-8 year olds in remote Primary School, Brikama Region, The Gambia
AUD 422
Raised from 152 people
Training of 20 key teachers a year to become teacher trainers/mentors to greatly improve teaching, learning levels and retention rates in primary schools, Solukhumbu Region, Nepal.
AUD 9,120
Raised from 3,325 people
Rehabilitate a primary school in the Wangdiphodrang District, Bhutan.
AUD 20,010
Raised from 7,547 people