Bridge International Academies
| Case Code: LDEN124 Case Length: 20 Pages Period: 2015-2017 Pub Date: 2017 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.500 Organization: Bridge International Academy Industry: Primary Education Countries: United States, Kenya, Liberia, Uganda Themes: Social Entrepreneur |
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Vicious Cycle of Poverty and Illiteracy
According to World Bank reports, in 2015, about one billion people were living in extreme poverty and 2.2 billion were living on less than US$2 per day. Living life with such an income was a challenge and providing quality education within this was next to impossible. The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015 mentioned that poverty was one of the major constraints for education. Under-financing of education was the challenge as education was not in the priority list of budgetary allocation in many countries.
The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015 revealed that worldwide about 57.79 million (about 29.64 million in sub-Saharan Africa, more than half of them girls) children of primary school aged 6-11 years were out of school in 2012. Additionally, by 2015, one out of every six children in low and middle income countries or about 100 million children had not completed their primary schooling. There was a four-time higher chance that the poorest children would not go to school compared to the richest children and there was a five-time likelihood that poor children would leave school before completing their primary education. The majority of these children were in sub-Saharan Africa. According to UNICEF, schooling cost, gender bias, lack of schools nearby, security, and no jobs after completing school were the major reasons for the children dropping out of school...
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