Girls

Importance and the Right of Girls’ Education Rachel Leung Humanities 3 Girls’ education is important to society. Everyone has the right to receive education and that includes girls. Currently, girls’ are not receiving the same education as others, especially in Ethiopia. Girl’s education needs improvement, because there are obstacles that prevent girls from getting a good education, and they face the consequence of being more likely to get HIV/AIDS. Girls nowadays in poor countries like Ethiopia do not get a good education because there are some obstacles that are preventing them from getting educational chances. In northern Ethiopia, marriage is serious. It happens to be very intense; girls get married at a young age of eight and nine years old and some are even promised when they are born. (“Early Marriage and Girls' Education in Ethiopia” http://www.unicef.org/teachers/forum/1002.htm). Married girls are often prevented from continuing education. The rate of literacy is only one in four adults in rural areas are able to read and write (“Early Marriage and Girls' Education in Ethiopia”). As a result, the chances of most girls’ that wanting to get in touch in education is taken away and their basic right of receiving education is deprived. Girls who have a limit on education face the consequence that they are more likely to get HIV/AIDS. Girls that don’t have the same opportunities as boys are creating a lot of problems and issues for the efforts of Ethiopia’s development. (Girls' education campaigns).The spread of HIV/ AIDS is mainly contributed by girls not getting an education. Nearly all parents send their sons to school instead of their daughters, who mostly stay at home. In the past and still today a lot of people think that girls are just for marrying and giving birth. Girls are less strong, so they are often put down, and treated badly like a lower class. The source of HIV/ AIDS is mainly because of people’s ignorance of basic knowledge and embarrassment. Girls mainly get HIV/AIDS, because they didn’t receive even the most basic education, like sex protection. They are also embarrassed about their issue, and do not wish to speak up and ask for help. They are too young and they aren’t independent enough to choose what they should do, so they stay silent, until the disease spreads.

Therefore, girls’ education deserves an improvement. Girls’ should have the same right as everyone else especially the girls in Ethiopia that do not have opportunities to receive a good education. Evidence proves that there are obstacles that prevent girls from getting education which will contribute to HIV/AIDS. We shouldn’t destroy the visionary hopes of those that wish to have connection with education, and have their own dream. Everyone has the right to receive an education especially girls that aren’t treated as fairly as others. If we help those that are in need, we not only change ones hopes, dreams and future, but also the society.