Education: A Key to Ending Poverty
One of the most important pillars in assisting DR Congo in escaping poverty is education. A good education includes access to clean drinking water, hygienic restrooms, comfortable classrooms, and qualified teachers.
Why Education Changes Lives
The development benefits of education go beyond career growth. It improves health, strengthens communities, and equips individuals to adapt to economic and environmental changes.
Key Benefit:
✅ Healthier Children – Educated parents ensure better healthcare and nutrition, reducing child mortality.
✅ Economic Resilience – Education helps families navigate financial instability and economic shocks.
✅ Environmental Adaptation – Educated individuals respond more effectively to climate challenges.
Sponsor a student or a classroom by making a donation.
Your One year School Donation will help improve the chances of many congolese children by allowing them to attend school and be able to purchase school uniforms and books.
We also welcome volunteers to teach English, Computer Skills, and many other formal training to young Congoles in Bukavu and Goma
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Summarising from World Bank's 2020 report
'Learning for All'
The development benefits of education extend well beyond work productivity and growth to include better health, reduced fert, an enhanced ability to adopt new technologies and/or cope with economic shocks, more civic participation, and even more environmentally friendly behavior.
A few such benefits include:
Healthier children. More educated parents have healthier children . Education increases knowledge of the benefits of vaccination and strategies for avoiding the transmission of infectious diseases. It is estimated that of the 8.2 million fewer deaths of children younger than 5 years between 1970 and 2009, one-half can be attributed to more education among women of reproductive age
Better coping with economic shocks. Households with more education cope better with economic shocks than less educated households, since they tend to have more resources and knowledge about how to cope with income fluctuations.
Adapting to environmental change. Comparing countries with similar income and weather conditions, those countries with better-educated female populations are more capable of coping with extreme weather events than countries with low levels of female education