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.

Women

When it comes to women in education there is a large gap between men and women in countries were education is privatized. Although there is public education in some countries in most countries effected by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund do not even have an option of public or private. While the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund  put plans into effect to help the economy by privatizing social services it only helps those who get the contract for privatization. With the movie Women and Globalization it showed how women take the brunt of the hurt. While boys are some times able to go to school girls and young women are sent away to work because it is easier to hire a women than it is a man. The inequalities that are put in place between men and women only make the problems worst.

Privatization

When we look at privatization there are what seems like to be pros. The idea of better education in the private sector and the idea of having both a functioning public and private school system like there is in the United States where education is a right not a privilege. Although when it comes to countries that are associated by loans from the World Bank public education is not an option. These nations are poorer nations, and the citizens do not have the funds to send their children to these private or charter schools. The victims of this is not just the children which are the direct victim but also the society as a whole. There is no hope of getting out of the poverty without eduation and skills. Although if a family is able to put a child through private schools it is much more likely to be a boy than a girl; girls and young women have and easier time finding work because they can be paid less so it really does become a society that is based on keeping one down to try and bring another up. These are just thoughts of sexism and and classism and how those that are unable to defend themselves seem to have no one to help them because there is no profit in it.

Niger

Western Africa is one of the poorest areas in the world. Niger in no exception. When it comes to the Nigerian population 64% of the population is at or below the poverty line. This makes it difficult for children to go to school. Children in these poor families cannot afford to go to school even if it was public and free; they have to work to help their families. Only 29% of adults and 37% of children are literate. Also those that are enrolled in school it is less than half of all students at 45% at the primary school level and 8% at the scondary school level. These people are not able to get themselves out of poverty; they do not even have the basic skills to work. There are option in the labor feild but these option would not be well paying or the working conditions good. Although what option would the citizens of of Niger have to better themselves, their children or their country.