"This is the silent crisis of developing countries. You never see a child die from education on TV, but make no mistake about it. Children die from lack of education all the time. Children are more likely to grow up and have HIV/AIDS, they are more likely to die in infancy or before the age of 5, particularly determined by the education of their mothers. So this is a life or death issue. There are 100million children who will not see the inside of a classroom this year.
This is a silent global crisis...today as we sit, there are more children out of school in
Africa as there are in school in the United States. Probably about 60% of the out of school
children are girls.
-Gene Sperling, Wide Angle: Back To School, PBS
A fascinating and fantastic documentary on Wide Angle concerning the state of education around the world, focusing on seven children in developing and developing countries, painting the stark contrast between the haves and the extreme have-nots in this world; showing the precariousness of the situations faced by so many of the very poorest in this world. The smallest burdens on a poverty stricken family can change the lives of the young; school fees of only a few dollars per year will change lives. Poverty can be so easily remedied, the fact that this is not being met is a disgrace; universal primary education is a global human right that needs to be met.
