Education in the third world

77 million children go without school because neither their families nor their governments have the resources to provide them with a basic education.
-Today's ONE update

If you needed another reason to understand what I'm doing in Bolivia, this is the exact problem the La Palmera project seeks to solve. Many children in Bolivia are among the 77 million and it's because the public education system there is PATHETIC. The Bolivian Government estimates that 80% of all children drop out of school before high school .

The rural areas like Trinidad are the worst hit because they are agricultural areas that depend on extra help for farming/ranching. Because they are family businesses, kids often are asked to help out after a certain age, leaving them doomed to repeat the cycle of an agrarian society and continued poverty. That is what I am fighting to overcome to give kids an opportunity to study computers, something that might really bring them out of poverty.

And if you still haven't visited the ONE website, please do so, there are lots of great things you can support without doing much. Write a letter to your congressman or at least sign the petition to end poverty.