African Kids Need Legislation to Support Their Education

Within this article, Jennifer Lazuta of VOA News explains the importance and necessity of education laws to be passed in African countries.  Though the education is indeed accessible, children are dropping out in large numbers to support their families.  Lazuta has noted that family poverty has made these adolescences feel obligated to do so since the government has not made education a proper priority.  With boys dropping out to work in diamond mines without labor laws, and women dropping out of school at ages thirteen and fourteen to marry; setting minimum age limits for “set transitions into adulthood” has not been a priority for Africa’s government.  If laws were passed, the government can limit family choices to make it more likely to continue their proper education.  This outcomes does include free tuition despite the eight countries around charging for primary education; whether their families are living in poverty or not, these children will get the opportunity to get the education that they need.  

This article by Lazuta makes me believe that a change has got to come for these children.  By saying, “Children are the future”, it gives the importance of primary education and a stable place to protect our women and girls from health problems caused by bearing children too you; as well as giving men and boys the opportunity to learn more before going out into the working field.  With more education, these opportunities will give these kids the ability to affect the government in the better.

http://www.educationnews.org/international-uk/african-kids-need-legislation-to-supporttheir-education/