If you see a blind person fall into the water, who is to blame? We have the privilege to see and therefore we have the responsibilty to take care of those that do not.
Likewise, education is a birthright -- every soul deserves the opportunity access and use it. In a documentary called On the Way to School that I watched, I saw Zahira of Morocco trek 13.5 miles, Samuel of India walk over two miles with his handicapped brother in a wheelchair, Carlito of Argentina ride a horse with his sister for 11 miles, and Jackson of Kenya walk 9 miles, including through a safari, all to get to school. Yes, these children live in parts of the world that is not easily accessible, but that does not mean they should have to go through such struggle to recieve education.
Unlike Zahira, Samuel, Carlito, and Jackson, there are 122 million youth globally who do not have access to education (UNESCO). Poverty, increasing income gap, racial conflicts, violence, and other social issues result from unaware individuals. Education is key to raising awareness to prevent these problems from increasing.
EduVocation funds teachers and entrepreneurs to go into rural countries where children do not have access to education. There, our members distribute educational videos and materials that locals can use to foster learning, educate parents on how to educate their child from an early age, and/or establish schooling systems to create a sustainable method of delivering education.
Our organization believes in the domino effect where you teach an individual who will later teach another who will then teach another. Our vision is to see a change, not merely in the literacy rate of young children, but also a decrease in various violent activity. We cannot fight every problem at once but we can start with the root -- education is that root.
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