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This is my video about education in Africa. The video’s purpose is to be informative and open eyes to what a different world it is in Africa than it is in the United States or other industrial nations. Poverty is a social injustice. There is no need for people to go hungry or without basic services such as education and health care. Yet there are many places where these are luxuries not rights. When looking at 45 million children without education we have to wonder what kind of lives these children will live. Education is a vital part of our development and without it there are consquences that are not fair. The world is not a fair place but without education; poverty and epidemics such as AIDS will continue because people will not know how to stop it.

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Education continues to be a problem all over the world today. Many people take their education for granted. I know coming from the United States where education is a right, it has become something that many people take for grant in this country. While education is important it is also important to realize that privatived public education is a symptom of something far more dangerous. Poverty is something that is a circle it is like what came first the chicken or the egg. In order to break the cycle we need education but in order to get education we need to break the cycle of poverty. If a government is unable to afford education and the people are unable to afford the education system provided the cycle and systems will never change. Governments and people that are in a position to help should, whether it is by monetary funds or going and teaching in a small village every little bit helps.

Kenya

There are countries that are trying to help their citizens with education. One of these countries is Kenya. The schooling system was set up in Kenya during the time of British imperial rule. With this system there was higher drop out rates and there were fees that had to be paid in order to attend. Well Kenya became independent after 1963 yet the school system and other social structures stayed the same. The system was changed in the 1980’s to train students in vocational areas and prepare them for life after school. This was a great improvement; also primary school was extended from 7 to 8 years. Then in 2003 primary school became free and attendance went up by 70%. While higher levels of education are still tuition based  people now at least have a  basic  need fulfilled. Education is so important to other areas of life that this is a major step in improving the standard of living in Kenya. When education levels rise poverty tends to lower; this could be because workers are more aware of what rights they have and they have more skills that come with more opportunities for jobs.

Black Gold

With the film Black Gold it shows the effects of privatized education. In Ethopia there is a tution on the public school system. The films going on discussing how the government does not bring in enough money to help pay for social services. These social services are important to the condition of the country. There are families that they parents work themselves to be bone trying to put food on table and clothes on their childrens back’s. Although these farmers do not even make enough to survive. While there are disparities in education and income there will be poverty in Ethopia. The options for these coffee farmers to get a fair wage for their coffee is almost non-existent. The price determination is done at the world markets in London and New York; which are worlds away from the dirt roads of Ethopia. While countries such as Ethopia struggle to survive there will be no justice.

Ethopia

Ethopia is one of two countries that was not colonized by European Powers. There independence and strength as a nation has been note worthy. Yet their level of poverty is very high. While accordingly education and poverty go hand in hand. Less than 40% of children in Ethopia have access to a primary school. Dr. Berhanu Kotissu discusses how his family was poor and how to over come that is difficult the lask of development and poverty are created by a lack of education and while children are suffering by their lack of opportunity. Their dreams are the same as those children of developed countries. This YouTube video is discussing the differences to children in Ethopia and the UK. While both groups of children want to be pilots and doctors. Yet the opportunties for the Ethopian children is more to become farmers and herders. While the children in the UK are able to fufill their dreams. The rights for children in Ethopia should be the same. There should be a rights to education that are unversal yet it does show in communites where education is more prodment. Education is important. Where it is private or public having access is important and there is a margin of 60% that do not have access. That is much to large to expect the poverty level to go down.

Chad

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/chad_statistics.html#46 

Chad is only of the poorest countries in the world. It is ranked the Fifth poorest by the United Nations with 80% of its population under the poverty line. While the country is struggling to keep itself alive its people live off of subsidized farming. While It is also one of the countries that has taken a loan from the World Bank. The public school system there is almost non-existent. While with poverty levels so low there is a need for children to work and not go to school. The average primary school attendance; male child is at 41% while the average female child is 31%. Then there is the scary statistics on secondary school; male attendence 13% and female attendence 7%. When in such poverty how are people suposed to do to get themselves out of poverty. The literacy rate in chad for men and women is alarming; 56% for men and 23% for women. It just goes to show that in cases where if there is a choice between a girl and a boy going to school it will be a boy.  Also it shows that with poverty rates so low and the cost of going to school and school supplies that most people cannot afford to go to school to better themselves to get out of the situation they are in. Poverty creates more poverty.