Lack of access to education
Families we work with request education more than any other benefit we provide. They desperately want their children to go to school.
Antony is a student in Kenya. He wrote this letter to us to tell us how excited he was to go to school:
"When I finished my grade school in November 2005, I had no hope of joining high school, having been born in a family of three children and an orphaned cousin all being taken care
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of by our single mother. … I had little to celebrate. …
I applied for a chance for the scholarship and my greatest joy was when I was informed that I had got a chance. I was so happy and for once in life, I saw I had an opportunity to dream."
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If they can’t go to school, their opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty drastically declines. You couldn’t do much without a high school diploma, right? Well, neither can these kids. To improve their lives, and their communities, they need to go to school. But, unfortunately, this basic human right is not accessible in all areas of the world. |
