Education is a fundamental human right essential for development and a key factor in lifting individuals out of poverty. An estimated 244 million children are out of school globally, heavily impacting their future opportunities, health, and ability to contribute to society. Equitable access to quality education is vital, especially for marginalized groups, and efforts must continue even during crises to support affected children's learning.

1. Education For All

2. • The right to education is a human right and indispensable for the exercise of
other human rights. Quality education aims to ensure the development of a
fully-rounded human being. It is one of the most powerful tools in lifting
socially excluded children and adults out of poverty and into society

4. • Without quality education, children face considerable barriers to employment
later in life. They are more likely to suffer adverse health outcomes and less
likely to participate in decisions that affect them – threatening their ability to
shape a better future for themselves and their societies

5. • An estimated 244 million children are out of school worldwide, including
almost 180 million children at the secondary level. Moreover, nearly half of
all preschool-aged children—more than 175 million children—are not
enrolled in a pre-primary education program

6. • Why is Education So Important? Education is a basic human right and a
significant factor in the development of children, communities, and
countries. Opening classroom doors to all children, especially girls, will help
break the intergenerational chains of poverty because education is
intrinsically linked to all development goals, such as supporting gender
empowerment, improving child health and maternal health, reducing hunger,
fighting the spread of HIV and diseases of poverty, spurring economic
growth, and building peace.

7. • Education Empowers Women and Girls • Particularly for women and girls,
the economic and personal empowerment that education provides allows
them to make healthier choices for themselves and their families.

8. • Education Contributes to Improving Child Survival and Maternal Health • A
child born to an educated mother is more than twice as likely to survive to
the age of five as a child born to an uneducated mother. • Educated mothers
are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no
schooling. • Women with six or more years of education are more likely to
seek prenatal care, assisted childbirth, and postnatal care, reducing the risk of
maternal and child mortality and illnes

9. • Education Helps Reduce Hunger :Gains in women’s education made the
most significant difference in reducing malnutrition, out-performing a simple
increase in the availability of food. A 63-country study by the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) found that more productive farming
as a result of female education accounted for 43 percent of the decline in
malnutrition achieved between 1970 and 1995. • Crop yields in Kenya could
rise up to 22 percent if women farmers had the same education and inputs
(such as fertilizer, credit, investment) as men farmers

10. Causes for not being able to get education
• Causes:
• 1. Discrimination of marginalized groups
• 2. Long distances to school
• 3. Formal and informal school fees
• 4. absence of inclusive education (Inclusive education means all children in the
same classrooms, in the same schools. It means real learning opportunities
for groups who have traditionally been excluded – not only children with
disabilities, but speakers of minority languages too.)

11. • 4. poverty
• 5 War and unrest
• 6. Social restriction[ girls in some places and community excluded from
education due to tradition or culture)

12. • Millions stop going to school to work long hours, often under hazardous
conditions. Others experience violence or abuse from teachers or fellow
students, or find their schools targets of armed attack. Some girls are denied
an education when they become pregnant or are forced out of school to
marry. Even when in school, millions of children receive a poor-quality
education that leaves them lacking essential skills and knowledge, including
about their sexual and reproductive health and rights

13. Access to Education must be Equitable
• Equitable access: Access to quality education and skills development must
be equitable and inclusive for all children and adolescents, regardless of who
they are or where they live..

14. Quality Education must be provided
• Quality learning: Outcomes must be at the centre of our work to close the
gap between what students are learning and what they need to thrive in their
communities and future jobs. Quality learning requires a safe, friendly
environment, qualified and motivated teachers, and instruction in languages
students can understand. It also requires that education outcomes be
monitored and feed back into instruction.

15. Education must continue during difficult time
• Education in emergencies: Children living through conflict, natural
disaster and displacement are in urgent need of educational support. Crises
not only halt children’s learning but also roll back their gains. In many
emergencies, UNICEF is the largest provider of educational support
throughout humanitarian response, working with UNHCR, WFP and other
partner

16. Watch the following videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBgF-OOMSHs&t=15s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F8nNLZlZrQ&t=7s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckz4qccSVpY

19. Task for students
• https://www.efaglobal.org/post/yesterday-s-struggles-tomorrow-s-hope
• Prepare a summary of what difficulties Baolong faces and how she plans to
achieve a better tomorrow through education.