- A mother's education is a powerful determinant of child survival. The higher the literacy level of a mother, the lower the chance of her child dying or living in poverty.
- Children with education mothers are 50% more likely to live past the age of 5.
- Just 2 per cent of humanitarian aid globally is allocated to education.
- Literacy rate of youth (aged 15 to 24) increased from 83 per cent to 89 per cent between 1990 and 2009.
- Africa has the youngest population in the world and as of 2005, 46 million African children had never even stepped into a classroom.
- Only 60% of Third World girls are in school.
- 100 million children are not in school with girls making up 60% of those not in school.
- Classrooms are often overcrowded 60:1.
- Obstacles to education: school fees; children having to work; no local schools; shortage of well-trained teachers.
- In the Third World teacher pay is as low as $2 a day.
- In Zambia, more teachers are dying from AIDS than are being trained to teach.
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