South Asia
In South Asia, one in every three children is not in school. Many of these children are girls.
When families are poor, they can’t afford to send their children to school. Some will scrape enough money together to put at least one child in school.
If the family has a son and a daughter, they will often pick the son. The girl will then have to help at home until she gets married and moves away with her husband.
Another reason that many children don’t get an education is that they don’t have any schools in small villages and other rural areas. This is especially true in places like Sri Lanka, where many schools have been damaged by war or the tsunami.
South Asia Education Facts
- About one-third of the world’s children who should be going to school but aren’t live in South Asia.
- Around 50,000 kids in the northeast parts of Sri Lanka aren’t in school because of the war.
- Fourteen percent of Indian children are working as child laborers instead of going to school. This is more than any other country in the world.
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