{UAH} EDUCATION MOST POWERFUL WEAPON FOR CHANGE: NELSON MANDELA

RippleZoo

Yesterday at 09:11 · 

Mandela Day calls on us all, every day, to make the world a better place. He once said: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Education is the key to eliminating gender inequality, to reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, to preventing needless deaths and illness, and to fostering peace. And in a knowledge economy, education is the new currency by which nations maintain economic competitiveness and global prosperity.

Today, around the globe, an estimated 61 million primary-aged children are out of school, almost half of them in conflict-affected poor countries. Too often, even those students who do go to school finish without basic literacy and numeracy skills: it is estimated that 250 million children cannot read, write or count well.

Expanding educational access for girls is not just an urgent economic and social need. In many cases, it is literally a matter of life and death. A mother who can read can better protect her children from chronic illnesses, from AIDS, and from dying young.

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