The solution is education
Education provides the greatest hope children living in poverty have for a better life.
Education helps break the cycle of poverty. Breaking out of poverty takes more than providing food and shelter. Education leads to choices — choices some of us take for granted, like the opportunity to finish middle or high school, or even attend college, then choose a career or trade.
Help their families and communities with things like enough clean water to drink and food to eat, and maybe houses without leaky roofs.
Reduce preventable diseases – Educated mothers immunize their children 50 percent more often.
Control the spread of AIDS – AIDS spreads twice as fast among uneducated women.
Save lives – Children whose mothers finish at least fifth grade have a survival rate 40 percent higher than uneducated women.
While U.S. public schools are (mostly) free and local, for youth in many countries, school is very expensive and requires daily travel to attend.
And even where students can attend public schools, they must pay for school fees, uniforms, supplies, bus fare and other expenses. Bus fare alone might cost half of a family's income! Families who can't afford to eat every day definitely can't afford school fees.
Believe it or not, 100 million kids couldn't go to school today.
You can help in a lot of other ways, too: working with a group to raise money for scholarships, praying and telling others about Walk with the Poor.
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