$50 will educate a child for a year

In many parts of the world, classrooms are bustling with children and teachers. The joyous sounds of learning filter through the hallways.

But this isn’t the case in the most of the poor villages and urban slums where we serve. In places like rural Laos, children wander the streets, dressed in filthy, ragged clothes. They don’t attend school because there isn’t one – or the local school is too far away to walk to.

Not being in school means more than boredom for these boys and girls. Many are involved in forced labor and are at risk for trafficking. Some are malnourished and sick. Their faces show blank and hopeless expressions.

Without education, they are trapped in the cycle of extreme poverty.

We saw this in a remote village called Daktin, where we’ve just begun working. It was a stark contrast to another village, Xiengmai, where World Concern has been working, with the help of donors like you, for six years. It was in Xiengmai that we met an amazing teacher named Petsay whose own life was transformed by education. Now, he is helping improve the lives of children in his village as a teacher.

Read Petsay’s story of transformation.

 

How we’re helping

You can help bring the life-changing gift of education to Daktin, and other unreached villages. Every gift of $50 will allow a boy or girl to attend school for an entire year. By partnering with us, you’ll help provide:

• Classrooms in remote villages and urban slums
• Trained teachers, like Petsay, in hard-to-reach places
• Tuition and supplies so children can attend school

By educating children, you’re helping them break free from relentless poverty. Donate here.

 

Some facts about education around the world

• Not one child in Daktin, Laos, attends secondary school
• Only 68% of the population in Laos can read and write
• 1.8 million children in south and central Somalia are not attending school
• Prior to the famine, only 7% of girls in Somalia were enrolled in school. It's worse now.
• 90% of primary schools in rural South Sudan are still functioning under trees
• 75% of the population of South Sudan is illiterate
• Only 1.9% of the population of South Sudan has completed primary school
• In Haiti, only 52% of those over the age of 15 can read and write

We need your help

Bring School to Datkin

World Concern has just begun working in Datkin, a community that is truly suffering. Witness the transformation by joining us to bring opportunities and education there, and elsewhere.

Education Slideshow