Millions of students across the world miss educations they should be getting, due to war, famine, weather or poverty.
ICRC caption: In the town of Kodok, South Sudan, a boy stands in a shuttered school, where classes have been closed for months after fighting intensified in the area. Photo: Jason Straziuso/ICRC
What are the odds this boy will, within a few years, take up a gun to fight in a war, instead of finishing his education?
What can we do about it?
1 Comment | 
Africa, Classroom technology, Education, War | Tagged: Classrooms, Education, South Sudan, War | 
Permalink
Posted by Ed Darrell
You’d forgotten there’s another war going on in South Sudan?
Location of South Sudan in Africa (darkened area). Wikipedia image
More:
Best flying of a U.S. flag: A woman carries a bag of food in Gumuruk where @WFP is assisting IDPs uprooted by violence.
Leave a Comment » | Africa, Flag etiquette, Refugees, U.S. Flag, United Nations, War | Tagged: Africa, geography, IDPs, Immigration, Internally displaced person, Politics, Refugees, South Sudan, U.S. Flag, United Nations, War, World Food Programme | Permalink
Posted by Ed Darrell
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
(The Life of Reason, vol. 1: Reason in Common Sense)
Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
Come on in, the water's fine. Come often: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 