Poverty, labour, inadequate infrastructure and child marriage are all factors that prevent children from receiving an education. It is estimated that 30% of them do not attend school.
For a country to escape poverty, all of its children need to have access to a decent education.
In AFRICA violence against children takes a variety of forms: physical, mental, sexual and moral. It occurs in both the home and at school. In the latter sphere, cases where children have been assaulted and even raped by their teachers are not uncommon; with girls who have been victims of rape often becoming pregnant and being forced to drop out.
Child prostitution – with all its attendant evils – is another problem. Though prohibited by law, it remains difficult to deal with. Its intractable nature is reinforced by the steady rise in the number of poor children, as well as the number of children orphaned on account of AIDS. These factors, in conjunction with sex tourism, have contributed to an increase in the incidence of child prostitution.
Owing to ineffective legislation and extreme poverty, the percentage of children forced to forego an education for work remains high: affecting 26% of all youth aged between 5 and 14 years.
Many children work on plantations under deplorable conditions; others are employed as domestic helpers. These jobs are invariably physically and morally exhausting, and lead to apathy and hopelessness. Children who cannot find work often resort to begging in order to help support their families, gravitating towards a non-productive existence on the streets of the larger cities
4 comments:
rise african children rise and prepare ourselves fr a btr zmrw
We are going somewhere, arise!
We are going somewhere, arise!
So true and touching.Africans lets support each other if the Western people are able to help each other why can we not do the same. This reminds me of philosophy of Julius Nyerere of familyhood. Africans should stop the ME, MYSELF AND MY FAMILY ONLY.
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