Developing countries, like India, face numerous challenges when it comes to educating their people. A large number of children in these countries are unable to complete primary school and drop out due to the cost of attending school. Many prefer to work for their family than to attend school. As a result few make it out of secondary school and very few go on to achieve a higher education. The governments are trying to fight illiteracy and uneducation but the bottlenecks in the system make the process largely inefficient. Here comes the role of social organizations and NGOs.
- NGOs can provide financial assistance to children who have to dropout because of lack of money. They can also provide free education at their own expenses.
- Then there are children who don’t go to school because of inaccessibility. NGOs can reach out to these kids and teach them at their homes.
- Thirdly, another major reason why girls have to dropout of school at adolescence is due to the lack of proper sanitation facilities for them at government schools. This issue can be taken care of by NGOs.
- Fourthly, they can also assist in the higher education for them, because in a country like India, education is not sufficient to earn livelihood. Skills are the most important. So they should work towards imparting skill-based education.
- Another thing that needs to be focused on is awareness. Awareness regarding health, diseases, medicine, sanitation, hygiene etc. are very important while educating children.
As Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”, we believe that NGOs have a crucial role to play in educating the children and thus developing the country!
The reason we brought this out of course is that Education is the primary theme we work with at MIEF. In the past we have taught voluntarily in schools, supported children’s education by overtaking the expenses and also gone to schools especially run by governments- which are often in a bad condition, to talk about health, science and other such themes for generating awareness. We hope to continue on these endeavours and hope for the continued support of various organizations and people that have worked with us in the process.