blog 13

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/18/brown-south-sudan-education?newsfeed=true

South Sudan is one of Africa's newest country. Gordon Brown, prime minister and co-chair of the Global Campaign for Education's high-level panel on education , says that the world has failed this area.   Brown criticised the "half-measures, hesitation and indifference" that meant that a girl in South Sudan is more likely to die during pregnancy or in childbirth than to make it into secondary education. Currently two million students are out of school. "The millennium development goals set by the United Nations include universal primary education by 2015, but Brown said the body responsible for financing the multilateral donor effort in South Sudan – the Global Partnership for Education – had yet to establish a programme."

I am sadden that  undeveloped countries are still not getting the education needed.  Most undeveloped countries are minority countries, which proves that racism still exist.  In class, Dr. Sills said that the US is supposed to be a country that help, aiding to the need of the underdog (so to say), yet if that country does not have what the US need, such as oil, they turn their heads and act as if nothing is going on. I do not believe that this is just the US, but majority developed countries are turning their heads. I agree with Brown when he mention that the world has failed South Sudan.  How is this a global problem? As stated previously women will die before getting a secondary education.  Two million students are out of school.  The millennium development goals have no goals set for South Sudan. I believe that developed countries need to help undevelop countries by investing in their youth.