Ethiopia

__By: Fatiah Nicole D'Orfeo__
Ethiopia is one of the countries in the world where the majority of the people are uneducated. There are many problems that prevent them from receiving an education. One of those problems is that there are not many people who can afford an education because the children have to work at an early age to survive. A second problem is that there are fewer schools in the rural area, where many people live, than the city area. The overall literacy rate in Ethiopia is 42.7%. The education is doing terribly as you can see by the rate. Their rate is below average and can affect a community tremendously. Proof of that is that education in Ethiopia is falling behind remotest places other African communities, such as South Africa whose literacy rate is at 86.4%. It is also proved that children that are living in the most rural areas are taking the responsibility of the household and farm jobs as early as four years old to support their family. For example 10% of boys and 20% of girls start assuming jobs before they get to celebrate their 5th birthday. A place in Ethiopia that refers to this comparison is Borena, Ethiopia. Borena is one of the most to find a school. Just to get to a primary or middle school takes 4 kilometers, while the high school takes about 100 kilometers away for people to reach an education. This is just for someone to have an education, to sacrifice things like time and money that they have so little of just to receive an education. Another place similar to Borena is the Addis Ababa. In Addis Ababa, only one third of the children start and finish schooling. Sometimes children’s from of working is also begging for money. These are reasons why people or more specifically children are not able to graduate school and have a profession. The “Modern” Ethiopia, the Ethiopia we know today has many other organizations supporting the idea of education for everyone. So think about the children who are less fortunate then you are when take simple things such as education and take it for granted. Think about what you have so easily and they cannot have, even though they desperately need and what things that comes so easily to you.

My sources: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=32710

[|http://www.tulane.edu/~rouxbee/kids98/ethiopia2.html]

http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/ethiopia.html

http://wwww.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/e1864d818986354985256e4a007102b4

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