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Education
Today, 67 million children worldwide-53 percent of them girls-do not have access to school or other learning opportunities. One of the eight United Nations Millenium Development Goals is to achieve universal primary education. These students in Senegal are participating in an alternative education program for 9 to 15 year olds without any schooling.
As part of its Children and Youth Strategy, CIDA is working to improve access to primary education and other learning opportunities, particularly for girls, and to improve the quality of education. This young woman in Bangladesh goes to a reading centre for adolescent girls, funded by CIDA. To date, two million children have benefited from this project in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.
This little girl has the good fortune of being able to get an education in Ghana. Education generates many positive benefits, including better participation in the life of society and a boost for peace and democracy.
CIDA is helping the Government of Mali increase the primary school enrolment rate and provide quality education. In this country, in 2008-2009, access to primary education increased by 4.7 percent for both boys and girls.
Students at end of school day, in Mozambique. In this country, in 2009-2010, the number of girls enrolled in Grade 1 increased to 75.3 percent. Canada is a world leader in primary education.
This young Zambian student is studying accounting. Zambia is likely to meet the Millennium Development Goal target of providing universal primary education by 2015.
These girls in Afghanistan walk two hours a day to attend school half days. Education gives them and their families hope for a better future.
Education is for grown-ups, too! In Spanish Town, Jamaica, parents attend a CIDA-funded training program on family life.
These schoolgirls in Pakistan have a reason to smile! Getting an education is the way to a better life. Girls who go to school marry later in life. They have fewer and healthier children who, in turn, have a better chance of attending school.
Schoolgirls in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake seriously affected the education system. Canada and its partners are conducting activities to revitalise the sector and meet its immediate needs. Education is at the heart of reconstruction and long-term development in Haiti.
Children amuse themselves in front of a cultural centre in Lima, Peru. The quality of education in this country remains among the lowest in Latin America and the Caribbean. CIDA focuses on strengthening the quality and efficiency of primary education, including intercultural education, for girls and boys in rural areas and among indigenous populations.
In Colombia, 16 percent of five to 17 year olds (almost two million) fall outside the education system, principally in rural areas. Children and youth are especially vulnerable to inequality, poverty and conflict.
These two young people are part of a project that, beyond contributing to improving the quality of education, helps the government and civil society in Colombia promote respect for the human rights of children and youth, as well as for social inclusion and non-violence.
These two young people are part of a project that, beyond contributing to improving the quality of education, helps the government and civil society in Colombia promote respect for the human rights of children and youth, as well as for social inclusion and non-violence.
