A world at school

It is good, isn't it? I'm not surprised as I knew about it already. Great work he and Sarah B are doing.

Excellent - signed and shared on Facebook.

I have too.

I've signed and shared. Thanks for the link Lilygran

Been following his work with this for quite some while now. It is such vital work he's doing.

Great! Signed.

Signed.

Gordon Brown is and has always been a very good man, who truly wanted to serve his country- and now others. I grieved for him the way he was treated. Signed.

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It's a good idea! But I just worry about about the potential for the "unintended consequences" that might occur.

In many circumstances sending children to school means they cannot work, and that loss of income, or the loss of their labour could cause problems for the fragile family income or their "farming" or fuel and water collecting etc.

To many families this child income or labour is essential just for them to stay alive.

Before making laws to send all children to school The economics of the loss of this labour needs to addressed.
Whatever the developed World's good intentions, a system that sounds an excellent idea in the developed Western economy has to be workable in those very hard pressed rural communities in the developing countries whos needs and situations are very different to ours.

Some big mistakes have been made before in terms of well intentioned International development aid.

Yes that was also the argument when stopping slavery. And what do you say about childhood prostitution? Sometimes something is just too big and fundamentally important to be stopped, and the best efforts made to ease the consequences.

Granjura I don't think its quite fair to equate my point with the argument about stopping slavery.
Perhaps I didn't put that right. What I meant was that while the prospect of getting all children into education is the goal It is not going to just be solved simply by providing Schools and Teachers. If only it was that easy!

Education is vital but being able to supply and sustain the means to feed yourself is more important.
Unless the agencies can start off by getting these essential problems sorted and find a way of covering the tasks of looking after the crops and the animals etc to ensure the families basic survival the children will not be able to attend school even if the facilities and funds are available.

This must be a particular issue in parts of Africa where are few adults about, due to the AIDS problems or the parents being migrant workers.

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