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Nearly two-thirds of 10-year-olds globally are unable to read and understand a simple story. The U.S. can play an important role in ensuring equitable access to education for every child. UNICEF USA has already drafted a letter you can send to your Representatives asking them to support the #ReadActReauthorization. Here is the link - super easy and only takes about 30 seconds! https://bit.ly/3PBDgGt

Today, on International day of the the African Child, we’re celebrating the work that Street Child does to keep children safe, in school and learning. Education is the single greatest step to reducing global poverty, yet millions of children across Africa and the rest of the world are currently out of school. Together, we can change this. Help us break down the barriers that prevent children from receiving a quality education at https://lnkd.in/geFbTtih #DayoftheAfricanChild #EducationMatters

Education is one of the greatest tools for combatting poverty, yet 1 in 10 children worldwide aren't in school. With your help, we can change that! Find out more about our work to see all children safe, in school and learning today at https://ow.ly/ARr850TH7yz #EducationMatters #GlobalEducation #Education

Every child deserves to be Educated

“Direct cash respects people's choice in an age that's worried about patronizing and colonial aid.” - Rory Stewart in his newly released TED Talk on paternalistic waste he’s witnessed in global aid and how he became convinced direct giving will accelerate the end of extreme poverty in our lifetime: https://lnkd.in/egj_8mMj 💰Watch + share the talk to help raise more for people in poverty! Many still think that giving cash to people in poverty is a bad idea, but talks like this can help change minds: the last TED Conferences Talk featuring GiveDirectly convinced over 800 donors to give over $1.2M. Here’s how to help: 👀Watch the video (14 min) Like and comment to help boost it for YouTube’s algorithm. 🤖 📧Share with your network — Post it in your work Slack and send it to friends or family with a GiveDirectly.org link. 15% of new donors hear about us from someone they know. 🔁Post on social media — reshare this one and post your own on X, Facebook, Instagram, etc! Here’s a quick summary of the talk: 🎣 After 30 years in global aid, Rory Stewart was depressed by what he saw. While directing the UK’s $20B annual global aid budget, he found the ways they tried to address poverty were shockingly ineffective and expensive because they’re based on the principle that we should “teach a man to fish.” But “people don’t want to learn how to fish — they might want to open a bakery.” 💸 Visiting GiveDirectly recipients in Rwanda converted him to direct cash. “I'd never seen anything like it, honestly, in my entire life in international development.” Cash works because everyone’s needs are different, and “when people make their own choices, they are then able to sustain and take pride in the investments in a way that isn't possible if somebody else does it for them.” 🌍 He argues direct cash offers a path to ending extreme poverty. By demonstrating this can work at scale, GiveDirectly can “convince the government ministers and the big agencies that they should be putting the money behind cash. And this is where everyone in this room comes in. Everybody here can contribute.”

How is it that 2/3rds of 10-year-olds globally do not have access to equitable education and struggle to read? We can end this. UNICEF USA makes it super easy for you to let your local representative know this is important to you and they need to extend #ReadActReauthorization.

💷29% of children in the UK are growing up in poverty. This rises to nearly 50% in families with more than three children. 🧑🏫Louisa Dawes, Carl Emery, and Sandra Clare explain how providing free school meals for all children in education would combat poverty. 🍲Universal free school meals would cost £2 billion to implement but generate over £41.3 billion in value to families, according to analysis by PwC. 👉 You can read the article here https://lnkd.in/eT-W29Mn School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester

Nineteen percent of Somali households are home to at least one orphaned child. Children who have lost one or both parents are more likely to be living in poverty and deprivation, and less likely to get the education they need. Our Annual Report records that in 2023 we enrolled 533 new children into the Zamzam Foundation orphans programme, which currently keeps 11,500 poor children in school by providing financial support to families like Sacdia’s https://lnkd.in/eTtRwyB5

Providing educational support to street children is a crucial step towards breaking the cycle of poverty and exploitation. Read more about the urgent need to empower street children through educational aid. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gBbQWfDx . . #salaambaalaktrustdelhi #togetherwecan #wellbeing #dogoodfeelgood #keepsupporting #bethechange #blogpost

Eradicating child poverty is the route to many improvements countries can make. What else do you think we should do to accelerate this? It feels like a no brainer doesn't it? In this harsh winter. When did you last talk with someone who has to choose between heating and eating. Let's all commit to do more to help others less fortunate. #caring #compassion #eradicatepoverty #HeatorEat #povertyeradication #povertyalleviation #povertyalleviation #childreninneed #childhealth #helpingothers #helpingyouhelpothers