Each year, 2.5 million children in Africa work instead of attending school due to child labor practices. These children face dangerous working conditions such as mining without regulations or working with poisonous chemicals. They also have their childhoods ruined by working long hours instead of playing, and lack education opportunities which leads to illiteracy and inability to get future jobs. One way to help end child labor is by building better schools in Africa that provide supplies and smaller class sizes, such as the Schools for Africa program starting in Madagascar with a cost of $31,000 per school.