Education and Civic Engagement

The disparities in access to education all over the world are worrying. Education is crucial in empowering the future generations.

There is need for children to have a better education which offers them opportunities to information access and digital literacy in today’s world. However, access to Computers is not enough, there is need for digital literacy for young people to be able to access relevant information and not just access information on varied media platforms but also to be able to write their own stories using different media formats

However, it is important to reemphasize that: It will all start with access to education.

I came across the interesting video below on the UNESCO instagram page.

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One in five children, adolescents and youth are out of school! New figures on the number of children out of school worldwide reveal that despite decades of efforts to get every child into the classroom, progress has come to a standstill. According to data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), about 263 million children, adolescents and youth worldwide – one in every five – are out school, a figure that has barely changed over the past five years. The UIS figures confirm that across sub-Saharan Africa one in every three children, adolescents and youth are out of school – with girls more likely to be excluded than boys. For every 100 boys of primary age out of school, there are 123 girls denied the right to education. #Education2030 #SDG4 #Education #UNESCO #EducationForAll #RightToEducation #SustainableDevelopment #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #EducationPower #SDGs #FundEducation #FundData

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