Education Transforms the Lives of the Needy Children

UNESCO monitoring report finds that India is still home to largest illiterate population in the world. More than 40 percent of India's population is illiterate and cannot read or write. And schools in rural areas are inadequate and often equivalent to being non-existent.

Education is one such important opportunity, deprivation of which in itself represents poverty poverty of education or 'education poverty'. In this sense, educational deprivation or poverty of education becomes an integral part of human poverty.

Education poverty and income poverty are also closely related. Poverty of education is a principal factor responsible for income poverty; and income poverty does not allow the people to overcome poverty of education. Income poverty forces children to be out of school for various reasons, and thus they are denied the opportunity of participating in schooling. Thus the relationship between income poverty and education poverty is mutually reinforcing.