Investing in education is the single most effective means of reducing poverty. Overall, the global education story has been positive in the past decade, with the number of primary school-aged children not attending school decreasing from over 100 million to 67 million. The Global Partnership for Education is the only global partnership devoted to getting all children everywhere into school for a quality education. An investment in the GPE Fund of US$2.5 billion from 2011 to 2014 will allow significant progress in education access and quality to be made. This level of progress in education would have major secondary impacts on child and maternal health, reducing the number of children who die annually of preventable causes by 350,000 and saving the lives of 14,000 mothers each year.
Sonia Hossain on May 8, 2012
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In relation to the poor families that lives in coastal area of small and remote islands of Indonesia, some help in such of the scheme have also revealed its effective impact, because the government of Indonesia has also become the facilitator and regulator for the fund. However, the real problem have still become a big challenging threat, because not all of school expenses and family related costs of primary health care could be covered. Further, especially in terms of maritime business, simple families of fishermen in the mentioned area have still been trapped down in the base of poverty ponds or lake of misery. As a person in charge of maritime education, I have also encouraged their youth-age group should learn better in this business in order to get their proper income. Some pictures of this educational perspectives can be found at the http://www.amgjogja.beep.com (though in the Indonesian language)