In educated families in Pakistan children have a normal life. They go to school, they play, and they have social activities. But in poor families the children work at least 8 hours a day. The per capita income in Pakistan is $1,900. The Economist Ranjan Ray states that a family will make their children work only if they are really in need (5).An average Pakistani has to feed 9 to 10 people. In addition, Pakistan has very high rates of inflation. Farkhanda Anjum and her colleagues in professional medical journal claims, "The ICF international (2012) estimated that of the 1,05,915 workers in the carpet industry 31.5 % of them were children. Most of the carpets in Pakistan are made in people 's houses. About 54 % of the carpet children were girls" …show more content…
The average cost of elementary school is $20 to $25 per month. Most families cannot afford this tuition especially families living in the Northern areas where most of the carpets are manufactured. "The study explored that all working children in carpet manufacturing in Pakistan were involved in dangerous work" (Anjum 641). The government needs to make the education free for poor children whose parents can 't afford to pay. In addition, parents need to learn or know the value of educating their children. If children are educated, they are less likely to tolerate low wages and bad treatment. When I was in high school I went on a school trip, and I saw many children who were making soccer balls, and they watched us in a very sad way. I think they wished they were in school and enjoying their life like us. When I saw them, I felt bad and started to think how to solve the problem of child labor. According to Munir Moosa Sadruddin, Ph.D Research Scholar, Institute of Education and Social Sciences, Children should be able to live a peaceful, dignified, and free life (13). In other words, children need to live an independent life of self respect, equal opportunity, and
The ideal image of a Pakistani woman is a housewife. Women become completely dependent on their spouse and spend the rest of their lives cooking, cleaning, and raising children. In America, women are more independent and have greater opportunities to display their capability. Being a Pakistani-American woman, I have the ability to decide what life I would prefer: the life of a housewife or a working woman.
Many people believe that “having an economy that places a greater value on skills and education is a good thing” and that is the thing that is needed to improve people’s lives and futures (Baicker, Lazear). If what our economy is trying to do a good thing they why are so many students still suffering? The main issues are the low-income education that many students have. Many schools are getting money from the government but that is not enough to pay for everything students need. Educational standards have continued to increase throughout the years but that does not help the students who are unable to pay for the better education. These students who cannot pay for the better education are stuck barely getting by with a low education. A low-education can affect many areas of regular schooling. The students who are at low-income schools do not know what type of disadvantage they have compared to other students across the country. These students believe that they are getting the best education, but there are many students who are getting a better education at a school that has the funds to pay for everything their students need. Low-income students are suffering due to the environment they are in at school and they continue to suffer throughout their life due to it. These students will continue to suffer unless something is done about the low-income schools and improve them for the future. Improvement has to come from all areas, not just one aspect of schooling but from all aspects. Although education has improved along with technology many low-income students still suffer from the vast inequalities. These inequalities will take many years to find a way to fix and even more years to actually fix, until this happens the students will...
One of the primary causes of a failing education system is the insufficient amount of support from parents to improve education. For instance, majority of parents who send their children to impoverished schools are not playing an active role in their children’s education. Consequently, there are many factors that keep parents away from supporting their children’s educational needs. Parents may be working more than one job to maintain a roof...
Some of the main challenges being cost of education, school environment, position of women in their societies as to how they are treated, conflicts and social exclusion. One of the main reasons why parents discriminate against the girl child when it comes to education is the cost when compared to economic returns to the household after the completion of education and also the expenditure of marrying off a daughter is enormous in many societies. It has also been documented that girls in most developing countries start helping in household chores from an early age and being highly educated causes constraints regarding marriage as many grooms don’t prefer a literate wife. Studies have shown that girls are the first to discontinue schooling to provide care to a sick member in the family or take care of younger siblings in case of death of a parent, and this is one of the main reasons why in Sub-Saharan countries there are many child headed families. Social exclusion is another barrier that prevents girls from going to school as they are excluded based on caste, ethnicity and religion (DIFD Report,
It is very important for parents to contribute in their kid’s education (Nieto, 2005). The cause to this problem is that some parents believe that it is only the teacher rights to educate their children. Moreover, parents contribution is very important, because the first and best education starts at home. Teaching does not only mean that children are going to learn the basics as read, write, math and history, but how to be moral human beings and how to serve their communities by giving out their time, energy and
Because of the more crucial importance of children’s labour to many household economies, children are involved in forms of labour just like their parents. Females play a central role in domestic labour and care for their siblings like they are the mother of the family. Children take on considerable responsibilities, and see this as part of their obligations to their families. Hence, in some countries, child labour is prevalent and, for many children, education has to fit around work commitments. This contrasts with the developed West, where children’s work has to fit around their education commitments. The priorities for children are different, and their childhoods are very much so a different
With a population of over 1.2 billion India is sadly at the top of the chain with the largest number of child laborers in the world. India has a poverty rate of twenty five percent with fifty percent of the population being under the age of twenty five years old (Graham). In India agriculture is the norm for working. The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that seventy percent of child labor in India is in agriculture or related acti...
However, in some countries children cannot obtain education especially girls. It is very important to get an education and can be very beneficial in children’s quality life. It gives not only an opportunity to learn to read and write, but also develop mental growth and learn about health, and well-being. There is a big academic pressure on students. Many of them work hard to be successful and trying to get the best education; but not all children have the same an opportunity because they live in the unsafe environment. Based on the Frontline documentary movie about Omarina, she was not doing well and failing classes and her grades was very bad. She seeks for the help and her school district did investigation on failing students and teacher’s comity decided to help her with her studies and living. One of the teachers volunteered her time to helped her with her living and academic progress. Her hard work and encouragement shows that everything is possible. Little help from educators and special programs can make deference in students’ lives. On other hand not all students are that brave and encouraging to seek for the help. Some of the children prefer to fail down and being dropped from the school it pushes them to the criminal activities. There are a many good teachers and willing to help to students who’s struggling with studies, but the students still have to do their part by trying their hardest to do well in school. All of these factors are one main purposes: to produce happy, healthy, intelligent human
Education is the source of all power allowing people to achieve any dream they choose. A person without a true education is nothing more than an empty shell living an empty and pointless life. The process of education begins at conception and the human mind continues to learn until the time of their death but most lessons are learned in the first five years of life. When the topic of education is discussed it isn’t how much is needed but how best to provide the education. The need for high quality education is typically agreed upon; how best to provide that education is not as easily as settled. The line in the sand has been drawn with neither side willing to back down and possible casualties are the children.
Children must have an excellent beginning to their educational life and home learning as the starting point is the most valuable part. While conquering many obstacles along the way, public education is essential for children to become quality citizens that grow into someone who brings abundant good occupation into a society. A good education guided by teachers with all the extra information related experiences provided by attendance t...
Pakistan has a per-capita income of $1,900 per year, so in essence, a typical person survives barely on $5 per day, and with the high rate of inflation it becomes difficult for a low-income population to survive. Nike’s child labor is spread all over Pakistan but has the greatest impact in the northwest of punjab province, that is Sialkot. Pakistan has a population of approximately 1 million and is an important center for the production of Nike’s goods for export to international markets, particularly sporting goods and shoes. Sialkot is one of the world’s most important centers for production of Nike’s sporting goods.
In both the cases of children living on less than $18,000 a year and less than $2 a day, the children do not have enough support to survive adequately. Poverty extends across all continents, making it the most widespread negative factor. Out of the world’s 2.2 billion children, approximately half live in poverty, according to UNICEF. Poverty claims approximately 22,000 children’s lives per day. This statistic illustrates the struggle children living in poverty must face in order to survive.
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In many countries with high levels of poverty, universal healthcare is a myth and quality healthcare is often a reserve for the financially endowed. Because of this, the poor are forced to contend with below par healthcare services, which are still comparatively expensive. The inability to access regular and balanced meals often results in poor health among individuals in this populace, with chronic illnesses being very common (Hickey & du Toit, 2013). Unfortunately, the same can be said of education. Many children in poverty stricken areas often drop out of school at early ages to seek employment. This is often driven by the need for every member of the household to contribute towards family expenses (Hatcher, 2016; Yoshikawa, Aber, & Beardslee, 2012). As a result, these children do not enjoy the benefits of proper education, which often results in many of these children still living within the same poverty brackets as their
They get less food; their caloric intake is 29% lower than that of male. The effect of extreme poverty falls most severely upon them and their children. About 93% children under 5 years of age in the country suffer from protein deficiency. According to FAO and their statistics women who are divorced, separated from or having disabled husbands heads 15% of total households in Bangladesh. The members not less than 96% of these households fall below poverty line and experience chronic food shortage due to their inability to participate in any income generation activities.