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Creating Change: Child Education In The United States
Nicole Blackwood
English II Honors
8.27.12
Creating Change All over the world there are horrible things happening to innocent people, and we trust in our government to protect us. That trust enables us to roam the streets with no immediate fear of our safety. Unfortunately, in many places people do not trust in their government to keep them safe because they know that their rulers are incapable; these people live in fear of sexual abuse, lack of educational rights, and poverty because there is a high possibility they could be caught among the midst of those threats at any given time. Fortunately there are many aid organizations to pick up the slack of the government and help fix these major issues with volunteers studying abroad, sponsorship,
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Parents struggle to provide for their children on a daily basis and when their efforts are not enough, sponsoring their child can save lives. In poverty stricken areas, child education is not high on the priority list, but education is the key to ending poverty. Kids with an education can get jobs and live in comfort knowing that money is not an issue. Sponsoring families gives them the money for food, living expenses, and education. Most organizations, such as Plan International and World Vision, ask for one dollar a day and will update the sponsor annually with pictures and letters from the child. The impact of just one dollar is endless. A family near the Congo border was given the money to buy a goat named Luck from Heifer International. This goat provided milk that the family both drank and created an income out of. In turn, the money earned was enough to send their daughter to school, and eventually college (Kristof and WuDunn 254). The difference the couch change of a generous person can make is …show more content…

being one of them, so if you are in no situation to give money, there are ample ways to show that you care with no cost to you. Donation is a huge part of aid organizations, admittedly a lot of times donation means giving money, but there are many different meanings. There are organizations such as Free Rice, partnered with World Food Programme, that give education and rice to impoverished communities worldwide at the expense that you take a few minutes out of your day to play a couple games at freerice.com. This is an educational website that I was introduced to in elementary school. We were allowed to play games on this site after we had finished our work in computer labs. Back then it was about seeing who could get the most rice, ten grains for every correct answer, none of us realized how much of an impact we were making. If each child of a second grade class can give a couple thousand grains of rice in just the five minutes of extra time they have after assignments, think of the difference one school can make if they set five minutes of each day for that purpose only. This would have saved Mariam and Laila a lot of suffering when they had to sell everything they owned after a fire destroyed their only income (Hosseini 304). It would also immensely aid the HEAL Africa Hospital by taking food off their ceaseless list of burdens, because the people they help are usually in no situation to pay for care, not until

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