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In Pool to School : Each One Teach One

 



Everybody deserves to get education. It is incumbent on societies to make sure everyone gets equal opportunities to education. Education will make the societies look better and shape better.

The best thing about education is that it harps on the idea of inclusiveness and without inclusive and equitable education for one and all, it would be rather difficult to work on the noble ideas of gender parity and income and wealth parity. In lack of proper education, millions of young children are deprived of their rightful access to better prospects. Education may help in their upliftment, their lives may change from a poverty-stricken existence to a decent life.  

It is pathetic to see that today 258 million children and youth still do not attend school; 617 million children and adolescents are unable to read and do basic math; more than 60% of girls in sub-Saharan Africa do not finish even secondary school and 4 million children and youth refugees drop out of schools. They have been defied of their privilege to education.

To celebrate the role of peace and development, The United Nations General Assembly declared 24th January as International Day of Education.

UNESCO  celebrated the third International Day of Education (January 24) on  Monday 25 January 2021 under the theme ‘Recover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation’. UNESCO notes that this crisis has thrown an opportunity towards us to power education by pacing up collaboration and international solidarity to place education and lifelong learning at the centre of the recovery.

 

 

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