Letter to the Editor
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The situation in our schools is awful. But, bad as it is, there is still a classroom available for every child.
Imagine living in a country where you could not send your children to school at all unless you were quite wealthy. That is the situation for 75 million children around the world, whose families cannot afford to send them.
No wonder these children have little or no hope for a future of anything but the most menial labor, sometimes servitude, sometimes becoming soldiers or guerrillas or pirates or even suicide bombers.
A global fund for education, modeled after the very successful Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, should be created to get all of these children in schools.
With an education each one can become a healthy productive adult who can contribute economically and socially to his/her community, and be a part of making that country sustainable on its own with no need for foreign aid.
Tari Nicholson
Martinez
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