The seeds that will change education

In my search for answers of how to improve the quality of education in third world countries such as Ecuador, I read a very interesting piece “share engage educate seeding change for a better world”. This article Intrigued me very much because it spoke about the many differences of the quality of education that was being provided to developed countries as well as third world countries.

There were many insightful pieces to it, but what I took out from it was how it spoke that many developed countries take education for granted because they are offered education as a right and not a privilege. When in third world countries sadly education is a high privilege that many do not have the chance to reach.

My proposal is to have an exchange program all around the country. To be able to provide children from low income in third world countries that may not have the opportunity to go to school so they will be able to have a chance at quality education and learn the importance of a good education . This is in the hope to educate children of the importance of school and quality education and in the hopes that the child will pass on the information to more children. “Band- Aid solutions to improving the quality of education in poorer communities can be problematic” — (Ricci, 2015). This proposal will also make children in developed countries understand the importance of their education and realize the great opportunity they are being offered.

My proposal is to pair international children with children who have been at the school for a while so they can help assimilate the child to a new school environment. This will help us because we can have worldwide connections as well as friendship but also to allow kids to use their resources to stay in communication and encourage many to take up a different language.

While reading the article many different points stood out to me. For example, when Ms. Chandra wrote “as word got around about the one meal a day program at school the attendance improved ” (Vinesh Chandra, 2019). In other words, these children could not afford meals and the reason many could not go to school is because they had to go out and work to receive food for themselves and as well as their family. It was proven when they saw the attendance rate go up that all the children just needed some more help in reward to basic needs such as food.

In the context of my research, I believe we should try to provide every child with a meal in the hope to have a more retention rate in schools by just giving a helping hand. A meal a day would help provide this opportunity. I know your next question must be how much will this all cost us and according to the article it says, “the cost to feed all these children on a daily basis was about 100 USD”, so when taking into consideration how this will impact the future is absurd.

In conclusion I beg that we think of the 100 children we could feed and bring to schools in that group, there could possibly be a president, a scientist with the cure to Cancer, Alzheimer or just children who will make a good living. They all deserve a chance of a quality education.

Citation:

Chandra, V. (2019). Share engage educate : Seeding change for a better world. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu