Education is the key to alleviating poverty. Education empowers otherwise marginalized children and creates opportunities that can lead to a permanent change for the better – not just for them, but often for their entire families. Raise and Support the Poor strives to not only provide access to education but also to give its students a rewarding academic experience.
In many impoverished communities, children don’t have the opportunity to receive an education. Some don’t have resources like books or uniforms, leaving children to fall behind without the support to catch up. Youths drop out of school to support their families and never go back. Entire school systems are understaffed, failing to provide adequate education to the children who live there. Lack of education increases the likelihood of involvement in drugs, gangs, and other risky behaviors. It’s easy to see how an absence of education spirals into a cycle of poverty. When you make a gift to our education programs, you provide the resources, tutoring programs, and more for children from kindergarten through high school and beyond. This learning crisis – the rift between the levels of learning children receive and those they, their communities, and entire economies need – hit a global scale even before the COVID-19 pandemic brought education systems to a halt. Around the world, children are deprived of education and learning for various reasons. Poverty remains one of the most obstinate barriers. Children living through economic fragility, political instability, conflict, or natural disaster are more likely to be cut off from schooling – as are those with disabilities, or from ethnic minorities. In some countries, education opportunities for girls remain severely limited.