Today in SIERRA LEONE millions of children do not have access to basic education. They will grow up to join the more illiterate and uneducated adults around the world unless changes are made.

Some of the most serious consequences of inequalities are:
  • Hunger and Malnutrition
  • Lack of clean water and sanitation
  • The spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS
  • Compromised maternal/neonatal health and high child mortality
  • Armed conflict and civil war
  1. Million children are denied basic primary education
  2. Thousand children leave school before finishing 5th grade
  3. Million adults are illiterate
  4. Million children are victims of exploiting labor
  5. Million children have been displaced by war
Education is the only sustainable solution.

 We believe in better future, we invest in education.
 Investing in education brings positive & healthy returns:

A stronger foundation for tomorrow’s peace, more reliable stability and security, greater social justice, better prospects for prosperity.

The massive influx of children on the streets of Freetown is nothing good to write home about as most of them are vulnerable to all forms of discrimination and human rights abuses.

Example: Mariama Bangura who is visible on the streets of Freetown begging with her blind father, she wants to be educated like any other child but because of poverty her father cannot pay her school fees and achieve her life long dreams.

Young boys living on the streets turn out to be criminals and end up in prison. Young girls become professional prostitute and can contact the deadly HIV/AIDS. The optional protocol of the convection on the rights of the child reaffirmed the rights of children and how special protection attention should be accorded to them.

Conclusively street children are human beings and their rights should be protected at all cost if these children are neglected today they will turnout to be burden on society in future. Therefore it is significant to protect their rights.

A lack of investment in education has led to a challenging and daunting situation.

This will continue to grow if we do not take significant steps to stop it today.
 
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