With education easily becoming a buzzword following a dismal proportion of illiterate people around the globe, adopting a school is definitely in.
NGOs, advocacy groups, and the government are doubling their efforts and pitching their time promoting the importance of education throughout the years. But the efforts paved only little winning to be able to actually build a solid foundation to engage and accommodate everybody to learn in school.
There is basically one major reason many kids are never sent to school: lack of financial resources. A number of parents are financially challenged due to low-paying or no jobs at all making them unable to provide the needs of their family more so, send their children to school. The parents’ inability and lack of money to pay the school’s tuition fee as well as the monthly stipend needed by the kids to sustain projects and pay other required minimal fees forces their kids to stop attending classes. That’s why instead of seeing the children hugging books to their chests nowadays, we mostly see them barely nothing in between. We could even observe some of these kids stretching their hands to beg for alms in the streets while having a competitive mindset to learn and grow may never even have crossed their minds.
The school has always been the faculty of learning. There are countries that have always been in the forefront in promoting education to be on top of the government’s priority list. One great example is Japan. Japan is one of the leading countries in the world that offers free education and allowance to all the younger generation in their country. It is evident that Japan is progressing because they know the things they need to prioritize and it just pains to think that some countries cannot do this.
There are also heroes in school who really strive to spread the love for education. These heroes are the teachers and principals who make learning a priority everyday. There are some teachers who work with the impoverished community schools and villages just to create an environment where children can go to school, learn, play, and prosper even if the parents of the kids barely have the means.
These teachers visit the kid’s homes and convince their parents to allow their kids to attend classes even if they have no allowance. The teachers, even if they barely have anything, take the responsibility of supplying what the kids need– from their food to their school supplies. The painful part is that the government, most of the time, is taking a blind eye on this. These teachers make a huge difference to the mindset and attitude of both students and parents. They have the passion to create bridges to a positive future with well-rounded and balanced individuals.
If the teachers can make an impact on learning, why can some of the governments across the globe barely do this? Making learning a priority every day is not just some random advocacy some government whipped up. It is a responsibility that all of us have to share. Adopting a school for the less privileged will make a great difference. After all, education is always our ticket to having a better and stable future that we surely wouldn’t want to miss.