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So I hope you enjoy the show. Good evening. This is your host Buffy Williams, and you're listening to the New Heights Educational Group, the New Heights Show on Education. Tonight's topic is providing educational access to the global community, global community education.
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Mountain Standard Time, 1 o'clock p.m., Pacific Standard Time, and 4 o'clock Eastern Standard Time. Again, our topic for tonight is providing educational access to the global community. We've had a couple of shows regarding global access to education. One was a round table from people across the globe who were looking at how education, primary education, and secondary education was accessible to students within their country.
And then also I did a global education monitoring report episode where we talked about the statistics that relate to providing access to education globally to children of different ages, age groups, and different social economic backgrounds, and in different countries. Our sources for tonight's show are coming from the global education. It's We.org and also Global Citizen at GlobalCitizen.org. So tonight's perspective might be a little bit different, but it encompasses all the things that we talked about on those two particular shows.
But when we think about education and how we can work to improve education, one of the things is that we have to make it a priority. We all have different areas or passions in life, but I'm hoping that if you're actually tuning into my show, the education is a major part of your focus. And for us to improve education throughout the world, there are a number of different factors that play into that. And those are the topics that we're going to talk about tonight.
Some of the major aspects are affecting children and their access to global education is food poverty and child labor. And we may think that we are so far removed from that in the United States, but that is hardly the case. Statistics are showing that globally, of course, we can just look at the example with the COVID-19. How one thing within the world can impact different areas of the world, whether it's supply and demand or access to skilled workforce or people to make the world go around from our janitorial staff to anyone in the executive office.
And so we're all linked together in one way or another. And so that's the way we should continue to think about global education and how it is affecting us. Because if we globally are not educated, then we are all affected globally. And some of the other areas that also impact those issues are access to water, health care, and of course displacement and then climate change.
And so tonight's show is going to talk a little bit about that. One of the things that the research talked very heavily about was that there are virtually 130 million girls who are out of school and facing barriers regarding access to education. Because in their particular country, they may be the ones responsible for collection of water and providing the household activities, and also they may be living in a conflict-ridden area. But access to education globally, we want to look at the fact that when they give students access to education, it empowers them with the skills and tools they need to empower themselves and their communities.
And so with that, we know that in particular countries regarding secondary education and primary education, it's not that you just have that and it's just automatically going to take place. Globally, we have a deficit of 69 million new teachers that are going to be needed to reach the goal that the United Nations has set for for primary education. And then that's something that was guaranteed by the United Nations Convention under the rights of children to have improved access to education. And also building classrooms and developing communities for these students to actually attend these classes, and also providing schools that actually focus on the community health and the well-being of the child.
And so we know that once those children are educated, it allows them to be able to set goals and work through problem-solving techniques within their household, and then their households can be more successful, such as businesses or farms, and also they can learn how to safely treat their drinking water in school. And so that, in turn, stops to drive off in a new Hyundai launcher today with $0 down during the Hyundai Advantage sales event. Take advantage of the $1,000 spring drive bonus and lease the 2026 Elantra Essential for just $73 weekly at 4.99% for 60 months. And you're covered by Elantra's best-in-class five-year new car warranty.
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Spread of many diseases that are in those countries and their communities become healthier as a result. So we see that education can be multifaceted in the trickle-down effect of how it affects our communities. And also, when the girls actually access schools, it also speaks of that there's less chance of the mother passing away if they actually have children later in life, and also gives them a means to be able to have the skills necessary to take care of infant children. Most girls, the reason why the research focus so heavily on the girls is that they have the hardest time accessing education, because many of them drop out for obvious reasons once they reach the poverty age, because they're either not having access to private toilets or latrines, or they also are at risk of being targeted by certain persons because they're trying to find a private place to actually utilize the private utilities, such as toilets and latrines.
And they also marry at an earlier age. And so with that, if parents are also poor, the research says that they have to make a decision at that point. If they have a girl and a boy in the household, they can't afford to probably send both children to school. And so if they had to make a choice, they would choose the male child in order to do that.
And so we're talking about exploring more about global issues as it relates to education and poverty and gender are a factor. Also child labor, there are 150 million children worldwide who engage in child labor, and then 70, 700 million who are actually in extreme poverty. And extreme poverty is another thing that the United Nations wanted to target. But one of the things that they also noted is in these impoverished countries, they are living on less than $1.90 a day.
And here in the United States, we may definitely take that for granted. We think about $1.90 a day. Some people may throw that away at a dollar store or picking up a soda or having a cup of coffee. And we don't really think about the fact that there are still a large number of people who are suffering from extreme poverty.
And it affects many aspects of their life. They also can't assess as far as education is concerned, they can't assess the food that they need, the healthcare or have job security. And so they have a deeper level of poverty. And so not having access to the opportunity to improve their livelihood, also no safety that's in place.
So schools have started to have feeding programs that are globally funded by, of course, the United States and other nations to provide these children with extreme poverty, at least the food so that they can meet those basic needs that they need. And so extreme poverty is one of those things that actually the rates have been cut in half since 1990. But we still have a large number of persons one out of five in every region that falls into the extreme poverty level. And so we talk about education, but one of the things I think that sometimes we're remiss in not identifying is what does it take a child to actually get to the school before we can actually educate them.
And so on the show today, I'm hoping that this conversation will be something that you will find valuable. And so we can understand that with these communities suffering from this type of poverty and trying to get their children to school, it's difficult for them to maintain a plan for different emergencies or maintain development projects within their communities and also meet their basic needs, such as water food, school and medicine. And that's another aspect of the global population as it affects education and do families have enough food and to have a productive life and how is it going to affect the family as a whole and the community as a whole. And there are food insecurities around the globe as well.
And so one of the things we talked about climate change and we talked about food security and how you can tie those two in together. If you're having this massive climate change and you're teaching children how to form decrease the food deficits and food insecurities and try to decline this trend of global hunger, if we're doing that and we're not addressing the climate change and how those droughts affect irrigation and how they're going to actually provide water to those areas and then we have to look at also the erosion of certain lands and how they can and do that in order to have a healthy and balanced diet within their families and within their communities. And so we're not only looking at education and access to education but we have to look at the soil erosion and all the things that affect those in poverty and who are maybe facing starvation and maybe famine but the United Nations has pledged to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030. So what are we doing to educate our children so that not only are they dependent, they don't want it to be dependent on the United States to do that, they want to find solutions that are going to be practical for their lives and for their communities so that they can continue to help those communities and feed those communities on their own and provide healthy food and fuels that help their minds grow and thrive within the school system.
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And tonight's topic is providing educational access to the global community and global education community. And we were just talking about some of the barriers as it relates to education and basic human rights to education, which the United Nations has pledged to assist with this effort and also looking at the deficits as it relates to the number of teachers that we actually need in order to make this a reality across the nation as far as the primary grades and secondary education levels and having teachers to be able to teach these children and also some of the barriers that they face in order to try to access quality education. And some of these things may be obvious to some of them, maybe more subtle. And we may think that these things regarding the longevity of health and society and the growth in our economics can somehow be overcome by some magic wand, but I hate to tell you folks that we are the magic wand.
So it's incumbent upon us to do the things and take up issues that we feel are worthy and take action and do our part. And so we may think sometimes that by doing our part that we're not impacting the globe in its entirety, but just by reaching one person, you would be amazed at how many people that person could impact. And so I just want to encourage my listeners out there to take in this information and think about, you know, all of the things in the developing countries as well as the U.S., there are still language barriers and we face that here in the U.S. as well.
We have students who have limited English proficiency in every area of education that we have. And so we have those classes to bring them up to speed, but we also in addition to language barriers, there are gender roles that affect access to education and also child labor. And then children, these children being the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in these countries. And not only our children and our young girls at a deficit, but also our children with disabilities are also more likely to not have access to quality education, especially in our developing countries.
Number one, because most of the girls will walk to school and their average walk time could be up to three hours one way. And so if you think about the course of your day and having to walk three hours to access education, then participating in school and then walking home and how vulnerable a child can be at that age group in trying to just access education. If the child has a disability, then it is again difficult for them to actually access it. And so there's a lack of funding also as it relates to education and providing actual schools that the children can go to.
And also we talked about not having a teacher and having a global teacher crisis at hand right now. And so we're talking about children learning the basics. And so we're talking about just the reading, writing and math aspect of children and having a deficit and teachers should be able to teach our children. And so it's estimated that we're going to need at least 69 million new teachers by 2030.
And that seems like a long way off, but not really. That's only about 10 years from now, right? And so also children not having access to an actual classroom and a child not being able to have a proper learning environment or having to learn over crowded classrooms or also having to learn outside. And then we know that whether it can have an impact on learning education systems outside and also lack of textbooks and lack of school supplies.
And so these are just some of the factors and also having just a basic facility such as running water and toilets in some countries. And also there are, I won't bore you with the statistics of it, but it's an alarming rate of schools that don't have portable water or toilets for the children. So once they actually do make this journey to actually access the education, they still have these barriers in place. Then also we talked about the lack of materials and outdated materials and workbooks and worksheets.
And these are some of the things that if we here can just think about how fortunate we are to have just the basics and not take advantage of those things. Also, as it relates to young girls and those with disabilities, we know and we talked about the combined discrimination that can kind of take place with that and then being uniquely vulnerable. So if you're looking for a cause or if you know of a worthy organization and it's reputable that you want to try to focus your attention on one area or another, I encourage just think about all these aspects that we are talking about tonight as far as accessing education. You think about the food, you think about the poverty, you think about climate change and providing clean water and access to facilities and access to personal items for young girls, also providing school supplies.
And think about which way you can at least contribute something or do some small act of kindness that can actually bridge the gap to just sparking something to kind of curtail the root cause of these problems and also find solutions because you out there, my listeners, I know have solutions to some of these problems and if we work together, we can all come up with, we can't save everybody but we can help one person. And so that's what I encourage you to do. And so also, the research talks about how young girls are forced into marriage, a lot of them before the age of 18. And once they actually are forced into these marriages, they tend not to continue on with their education because educating a young girl is less valuable in some countries and girls may be embarrassed to come back to school because of personal reasons regarding having access to toilets and latrines.
Also, those who are living in countries of conflict also natural disasters and of course are on the list. But we have a large number of people who are working with these particular organizations that I'm talking about tonight, which are the global citizens and they have this festival every year in New York, which I've seen before but I didn't realize how impactful it was as a power of movement for education. And in New York, they present, it's presented by City and Cisco and their associates in the production and production partners for Comcast, MSNBC, NBC, Universal, iHeart Media and their media partners and different radio stations live streaming this festival through Twitter and YouTube in order to raise awareness. And it's also some of the other organizations are Johnson and Johnson, Procter and Gamble, Verizon, and the New York City Parks.
They all partnered together to raise money for global citizens and they put on concerts so that some of these issues that we've talked about today as barriers to education and thinking about the global impact of education can be funded and they can be distributed in a way that is balanced to better aid these countries who have, you know, hunger issues and poor nutrition and poor access to education and also aid in the expense of education because we know that some of the poorest families still remain in some of these countries and even in the U.S. And so just by virtue of them providing pens or books or paying exam fees and support for these schools that have buildings that are not quite adequate because a lot of these countries don't have government supported schools. The parents have to, even if it's a low fee, they have to send their children to a school where uniforms are required and so then they have to make a choice whether they're going to provide the basic necessities for their home such as, you know, food or health care or medicine or if they're going to provide uniforms for their child to actually go to school. And so think about all of these barriers to education in ways that we can better the lives of children who are seeking out education and also help in whatever small way you can to support any organization that you know that is reputable and I do encourage you to do a search and make sure that it's a reputable organization before you decide to donate.
But when we think about providing educational access in our global community, we have a lot more to think about than actual textbooks and teachers. We have to try to figure out when these children come to us what barriers have they faced just to get there. And then once they get there, how are we going to provide them with a quality education in a safe environment and also have the teachers there to be able to teach them the things, the practical things that they need to know in order to make this world a better place. And so I encourage you again to just take some time and think about how can we in our small corner of the world make education more accessible because we know that children even here in the US are relying on school lunches and even in the summer time school school lunches.
I can remember when I was growing up in the summer time, it was a big deal to get lunch from the lunch program in our community and all the kids would get together and we would walk together. And if I remember correctly, it was at a church and so while we were there, we also kind of had like a vocational Bible school while we were there. So we were there for a number of hours learning different things as far as the vocational Bible school. But then one lunch time came, we were provided with those lunches in the summer time.
And I don't know actually how many children in our community, but I know there were a lot of us that took advantage of that program. And also now with the students being out of school, school lunches was a big, a big discussion among the administration. And I was glad to know that the schools were still providing breakfast and lunch for some children. So let's just think about the barriers that our children face as it relates to accessing education.
And I hope that this conversation has sparked something in you regarding providing educational access to our global community in ways in which we can make our own communities better as far as education is concerned, or how we can support those who are actually doing something positive. And so if you see someone doing something positive, maybe you just need to ask the question, how can I help? I'm your host Buffy Williams and you've been listening to the New Heights educational group, The New Heights Show on Education. And I hope that you enjoy tonight's show.
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