Education is a right; not a privilege.
How many times a day do we see children picking up trash on the roadside, cleaning a restaurant table, begging on streets or just running around and rolling tires with sticks? Have we ever stopped at this sight and thought about how their future would look? Where would all this lead them to? Is this what we want the country’s future to look like?
A country where 24.9 percent of population lives below the poverty line, it is not surprising to know that 41% of the adult population is illiterate. This 41% totals to eighty-eight million eight hundred six thousand people approximately. Coming to the youth, According to UNICEF, “Pakistan has the world’s second-highest number of out-of-school children with an estimated 22.8 million children aged 5–16 not attending school, representing 44 percent of the total population in this age group’. How does it sound? It sounds alarming. Imagine the future of a country where let alone adults, even 44% of the youth, that we all consider to be the bright future has never been to school.
Everyday on my way to and from university, my car crosses the slums where i see these poor kids, playing in mud, where with every passing day, the future of this motherland falls another step down like those tires they play with. However, its not them that i blame. Go ahead, and ask a poor kid if they want to go to school and see their eyes shine brighter than the stars. They are keen to study; more enthusiastic than you and i could ever be, but the only thing they lack is privilege. Privilege: a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group. Sadly, i can not think of any reason why i am privileged enough to study in one of the top-tier schools and they get to pick trash and look at other school going kids with desire and kill their dreams at the same time.
Problem Statement: Due to lack of development in the education sector by government, the under-privileged people are still unaware of the importance of education, and those who do want their kids to be educated are unable to afford it.
Hence, my mega project idea would be around making education affordable and easier for the under-privileged children.
