Third Year Students at the University Unit/Theme: An International Education

Education – For Everyone

In first-world countries, education is seen as a right to be enjoyed by all children and young adults. In many areas of the world however, this is not the case. Education in much of the developing world is the privilege of the wealthy and families must make great sacrifices to send their children to school. Fortunately, in an effort to ensure that all the world’s children are able to gain some level of education, charities are set up to help children and their parents when circumstances are difficult. These types of charities must be developed more in the world.
India has more street children than any other country. Hundreds of these children live, beg and work around train stations in the country’s busy cities. In 1985, Inderjit Khurana, a teacher from Bhubanaswar, could ignore the children no longer. She decided to try to help those young people making a living from the busy commuter traffic. The children rely on begging and selling things in those few short minutes as the trains pull into the stations. Khurana realised that, other than when trains arrived, the children were just waiting around on the platforms. She decided to take advantage of these times. The education might be taken in this period. She began with storybook sessions, inviting children to join her in reading stories in between the trains’ arrivals. Soon the children wanted to learn to read the stories she told them by themselves and school became a daily occurrence. Beginning with eleven students, Khurana now has a foundation that runs twelve platform schools, has job training schemes for older pupils and has helped over 6000 children.





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