Worlds children attended school now its more like 700000000. 00 thats almost 90 percent of all school age kids. d the right to an education is even laid down in the 948. 00 un declaration of human rights education should be one of the global Success Stories and yet theres a widening gap between education standards across the world children in developing countries are around 100 years behind those of industrialized nations. So why is that while many children in developing countries have to work outside of school. And Armed Conflicts can prevent them from attending school regularly. In wealthier countries young people typically attend school for an average of 12 years in developing countries for just 6 and a half years. And there are differences within the industrialized nations themselves to a childs background too often determines their success at School Poverty can be a huge obstacle when it comes to gaining a good education those who can often spend a lot of money on their kids schooling parents spend around 90000000000. 00 euros worldwide on extra coaching every year d partly because theyre afraid their kids wont otherwise make the grade. And so the gap widens in china too many parents and kids have one objective when it comes to schooling getting a good leaving certificate or gal cow it decides whether theyll be wealthy or poor later in life. Joe in waits here every day at 330 for her sons class to end she quit her job so that she could spend more time raising shall show. The 7 year olds spend 7 hours a day in school but thats only part of his education. Refresher. Joe ing has organized a schedule of activities for his afternoon of our love of they start at 4 pm with a talk about the days homework. I dont look at his grades so much but i do Pay Attention to his study habits in 1st grade his chinese characters 1. 00 very neat but hes improved its his attitude towards learning that counts. Like many middle class parents in china she feels the regular School Curriculum isnt enough for her child its common for families to pay for additional classes and tutoring. That. Jazz. The arms round here. Show shows extra curricular lessons including good chinese swimming exercise and math chinese parents spend an average of 15000. 00 euros annually on private tutoring to compete i have 8 minutes to complete this page. That. Was your mother let that high do you think his schedule is very tiring but children have Endless Energy when it comes to doing things they like you just have to make sure hes in good spirits when studying gets dull hill is interest and you need to stop. The schools here expect parents to get involved in the childrens learning process. For her this is the schools app. Using the app gets daily reports from shows shows teachers on her sons performance and his homework. And china homework is a tough job for the parents it can give you a heart condition. By 5 45 pm show she always finished his math and english exercises he and his mother take a break for dinner his father works 12 hours a day so shall show barely sees him during the week chinese children are already being trained for their later workload. Rara for their eyes i think i have enough time to play if i get my homework done quickly i have more but if im too slow i have less sometimes i have an hour a day sometimes 40 minutes or just 20 hours it depends on the. Its time for his evening class of language in writing course chinas technophile society enthusiastically embraces new teaching methods especially if theyre more playful than traditional learning by rote but joe ing sometimes asks are selfish shes pushing him too far she. Learns so isnt that many children now in china excellent students but then they fail an important exam and they cant deal with the frustration and they jump off a roof top what matters most to me is to raise a healthy personality. Thats an issue thats much discussed on the internet in china the competition to enter the best schools in universities is fierce and there is one thing that has not changed for generations chinese characters require a lot of practice by the end of Primary School children are expected to read and write 3500 characters practicing those characters as show shows final task of the day. At 930. 00 hes finally done bedtime he just finished 12 hours of studying and activities. Now its sunday but hes not off today either weekends are the busiest time for tutors besides regular school subjects theres a broad range of subjects that parents can book for their kids from ballet to chess are calligraphy and even scheme for children like show show saturdays and sundays can be just as busy as the rest of the week. I. Shall Shows Parents have decided to limit his activities on weekends to one class per day on sundays he gets tutored in physical fitness. Schools focus on intellectual activities the space for physical exercise is limited most kids spend a lot of time sitting and doing homework but just have enough time to train their body. Another tough week is over for shall show no more classes and no gore homework in the afternoon his parents have Something Special in store theyre taking him to a museum. Whether through apps or Virtual Reality technology is on the rise in the classroom many experts believe that acquiring skills in the latest technologies will be essential for childrens futures after all around 2000000000. 00 low level jobs a likely to disappear in future as a result of increasing automation and yet in developing countries as many as 9 in 10 children typically leave School Without any such skills. d here at the time or in trees school in the small coastal town of no children from the indigenous wiley tribe are learning about social justice and democracy. Damage Even Initiative that is working with the marginalised tribal communities in the high low who have historically been denied. Theyre right to have education or decent living to access to their forests and they are this is a community that is at the bottom rung of the society for it is in the sense that school is are not just a school its an experiment instead articular or dorner to say that education must be about social justice and together along with this group of people we are experimenting with how open source open Source Technologies can really bring about change. This approach means that the childrens families dont have to buy any school books tamarind only uses online Educational Resources that are accessible for free. This system is no less open education which works on the premise that high quality educational material and technology should be available to all. The time or Interest School is that once the lesson is to be fun its a radical departure from the more hierarchical system common in Indian Schools the School Computers use open Source Software thats also available for free the children can then modify it themselves and Young Students are learning to chord their learning to program probably as they go order them learning to make small video animation games are very new to produce things that. The other very important principle in tamarind trees walk is that as we said earlier we are part of the open Source Movement so every thing on our campus is open Michelle Charla and heyman moved from mumbai to over 15 years ago since then theyve worked closely with the local community determined not to turn this into a Charitable Institute the School Charges the parents fees ensuring that they stay invested many of the childrens parents are unable to read and write the School Office their children the chance of a better life. Its easier for us because this. So the parents of the students really just have faith they just have trust that ok what do with these guys are doing there must be doing it right because they didnt have an idea. To centuries of discrimination these children are the 1st from the tribe to experience this kind of respect their education will give them the opportunity to overcome the limitations they would otherwise face in indian society. In all global teen series we meet young people from around the world. Ok. This week our teen comes from india and hes a big fan of school. And im my names current rushed of aussie. My father is a teacher and works in joel or district. He teaches the children social sciences. A mobile phone and. I love to go to school because i get to meet my friends there and i love spending time with them. Also the teachers at the School Teacher something new every day so i really like going to school. There is no medical. Method then men making good to lead my free time i like to play cricket. I also like to read. But man i like to write camels. And i can go sometimes i also take the buffaloes out to graze. And im a mother to. Them as are some when i think pollution is the biggest problem in the world at the moment. Pollution is harming our farmland morning grooming. Plants the crops are unable to grow properly. Planned martin dioxide is increasing that men because we dont have enough plants to take it up things and. Theyre going to thank you. Local television there i like how my parents and grandparents used to live there they stayed healthy they didnt get sick often the 8. And they drink buffalo and camel milk. Camel milk doesnt cause diabetes. Nowadays all people do is run after money half their life then they spend the other half of their life curing themselves of diseases. And many of them. Around 260 babies are Born Every Minute how things then go for them is determined by their background their place of birth and the medical care they receive every year around a 1000000 infants die within a day of being born the highest mortality rates are found in african countries thats why doctors in madagascar focusing on training me to. Lives. Crowds wait in anticipation for the arrival of doctors. She supervises 30 Health Care Centers in the highlands of madagascar she wants to improve the health care of vailable to pregnant women in this area. No need to be afraid it wont hurt that this expectant mother has never had an ultrasound scan and doctors as shes known here has brought the equipment with her as she and her team work for the Nonprofit Organization doctors for madagascar not even the midwives here are familiar with the ultrasound equipment so understandably many of the pregnant women need reassuring. There is still thirst for us fraid of it because they have to be a friend that there is no the facts are that they are still afraid. It might be dangerous but we still a foreign source if its or 2 before. We decide to see it you know its up of course many of the women are very happy when they see the baby for the 1st time. And theyre also happy that these checkups a free of charge yes and their. Doctors are providing training for the midwives one focal point is the importance of hygiene which is vital for the health of both mother and child but the midwives are also learning more about what they need to do during the birth. Could i think the middle east ok. The midwives often only have basic medical knowledge by providing them with additional training n. G. O. S doctors for madagascar wants to improve the standard of prenatal care at the Health Center but in this way potential complications can be recognised earlier. Doctors for madagascar has also set up a Digital Health insurance system its called madi its particularly helpful for the pregnant women they pay 3 year olds a month into the Insurance Scheme then they get free prenatal checkups and all the hospital costs for the birth are also covered the womens mobile phone sim card is their membership id. Doctors of enter team are going to visit a pregnant woman who wants to join the Insurance Scheme. If an emergency were to crop up in this remote region there would be very few families who could afford to pay for transport to the hospital. Because i was for this mother wants to use her new sim card to transfer the equivalent of 5 euros to. After that shell pay 3 year as a month. Whatever customers pay in gets automatically doubled thanks to donations from germany once theyve built up a credit of 30 euros their medical care is covered. We have shown her that her money is. Increased with our borders and there she have now in her account 30000. In the count so we prove it to her for money. Thats nearly 10 euro so shes already one 3rd of the way there. In the evening the team returns to the capital antananarivo. Doctors ave uses the time during the drive to plan where she needs to visit the next day. A short distance from the center of the 3000000 strong city she arrives at the office of doctors for madagascar the organization was set up 8 years ago and now employs 30 people including doctors midwives and i. T. Specialists like no else in life. His team is working to improve the digital platform for which records all the insurance payments and medical treatments. German physician. Is one of the founders of doctors for madagascar he set up the platform 2 years ago. We figured wed been totally surprised at how many of joint. We have more women and families using it than we expected and were also getting requests from hospitals including ones in completely different parts of the capital and others outside the city to wanting to use the system we think its great. Entomology already has 6000 paying members and now the government of ghana has also expressed interest in this Health Insurance scheme. For Health Care Security a social network as many as 4000000000 people worldwide have no access to such basic protection those with the lowest levels of education a most at risk in brazil casual trash because and now being given the chance to train as official waste salt has instead. This patch of land 20 kilometers outside the capital brasilia used to be the biggest landfill site in latin america last year the dump was closed and the 60 meter High Mountain of garbage was covered with. Construction waste is still being dumped thats illegal the National Waste policy ends to eradicate landfills and promote recycling with residual waste either incinerated or going to sanitary landfills that protect the environment but there are still 2 and a half 1000 open landfill sites across the country. Fernandes worked here as a waste picker for 20 years mainly at night she supported her 4 children by selling anything of value she found they used to live in a shanty town right beside the dump. We were always in a struggle with the trucks of the bulldozers and with more than a 1000 other people working here i thought it was survival of the fittest my thoughts about how much you took as much as you could get. And for women that was very challenging people lost their lives working here very tough. At 1st lucy a friend and this was very much against the closure of the garbage dump she had little faith in the city authorities pledged to provide jobs for some 750 trash because in new recycling facilities but now thats where. He was and shes changed her mind. You know up and say well shit i never thought i might one day have a real job me a simple waist picker with no rights and no social insurance. And now i work ere i even have an office up if only i paid a little better it would be perfect as you know my eyes she used to and 4 times as much scavenging on the old dump she and her colleagues now belong to a cooperative that operates one of the recycling facilities what they done depends on how much trash they sort on average only about 200. 00 euros a month so far because for now not enough waste is delivered to the facility. And watch how many other fernandez is a supervisor she makes sure the work is done properly that is how many. Half it is nice they had a company there arent enough people working on the Conveyor Belt a lot of recyclable material gets through life then we have to check it to make sure things dont end up in residual waste that dont belong there if i see that happening i put more people on at the end of the belt that the process is set to become more efficient with the help of some students from the university of brasilia until recently that professor apollo says so does race gomes was Deputy Director of the municipal sanitation all for a seat he helped restructure brazilians Waste Management systems. Kind of like everybody is collecting Something Different she sorting out glass bottles shes sorting out the plastic bottles further along somebody is pulling out the cardboard im afraid its possible the process could be made more efficient if the positions were switched around thats something we need to test this tell us. But not all the trash delivered here to be sorted can be recycled much of it has to be disposed of in the aim of the. Graham is to increase the proportion of waste that can be recycled. Everything that can be stored and soldiers returned to the production chain to the recycling at district if it doesnt end up being dumped so were saving the cost of taking it to the landfill extending the lifespan of that site and reducing emissions. This is brazil has new landfill site far more waste is ending up here than planned one mountain of garbage is complete and being covered with. The pits for the 2nd one has been lined with waterproof sheeting to protect the groundwater from contamination the plan is to capture the gas produced by the decomposing waste and use it. In brazil Greenhouse Gas emissions from the waste sector have continued to rise dramatically in recent years. The German Development agency g i said is advise in brazil years Sanitation Authority on how to reduce emissions. By we are investing in expanding Waste Sorting and the composting of organic waste that will allow us to reduce the volume of residual waste and thereby emissions of methane as well. As what they are brought at the same time we aim to raise Public Awareness so people start their recyclable trash. Professor paolos race has organized across disciplinary seminar at the university. Students from various fields are working on developing sustainable Waste Management solutions. One approach is to make Waste Sorting more efficient another is to focus on technology trucks sensors logistics others aim to raise environmental awareness how can the public be involved more closely in the Waste Recycling process use the program bring students together with representatives of the kind of support Sanitation Authority. The recycling cooperative and also commercial enterprises in cooperation with g. I. Said the university of brasilia setting up a Postgraduate Program in Waste Management. Among brazil cities the capital has taken the lead in developing a sustainable Waste Management strategy. Sorting out collection have just been expanded across the city. Is optimistic about a future theyll now be more waste to live up to her cooperative to sort and that means she and her colleagues will soon be earning more. Thats all from us this time what did you find particularly educational about the program let us now level 3000 at devon you dont come see you next week. To. Go in. And do you see business with billions of euros cars cars much of the rubble used to make good. Comes comes a time of. Good construing under siege plantations to starvation wages in extremely unhealthy conditions the german manufacturer is not being claims because they can exert pressure all the way down to the farms. Cut of. Goods on d. W. O. Im going crazy thing in full time. 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