All children deserve an education. However, in Bluefields, Nicaragua, children are not sitting in desks learning to read, but outside. Children are working, or hanging out outside listening to music. It’s not they hate school or playing hooky, it’s the fact that they can’t go to school. Families are unable to afford their children to go to school, so children kill boredom by working. Nicaragua is the second most poorest country in the Americas next to Haiti. Half of the children and adolescents live in poverty. Nicaragua had put up multiple international treaties and has strong national policies, but government claims that it is reducing child labour are not supported by any published evidence.
UN officials decide to raise the compulsory age for mandatory education in order to reduce child labour. They believed that if children have more education, they will have more chances to receive a better job, and maybe help the next generation. However, Philippe Barragne-Bigot, Unicef representative in Nicaragua, believes children drop out because of cultural norms driven by the cycle of poverty, poor-quality, lacklustre classes and the chronic lack of economic opportunities that makes school seem pointless. Knowing about these key facts, just raising the time duration for mandatory education really help get rid of poverty?
UN officials decide to raise the compulsory age for mandatory education in order to reduce child labour. They believed that if children have more education, they will have more chances to receive a better job, and maybe help the next generation. However, Philippe Barragne-Bigot, Unicef representative in Nicaragua, believes children drop out because of cultural norms driven by the cycle of poverty, poor-quality, lacklustre classes and the chronic lack of economic opportunities that makes school seem pointless. Knowing about these key facts, just raising the time duration for mandatory education really help get rid of poverty?
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MAY 19TH 2015
MAY 19TH 2015