10.06.2007

CARTOON

BEGGING FOR EDUCATION

How the Regime are Preventing Poor Children from getting an Education.

-                      Their parents cannot afford to send them to State schools where the government charge fees and require students to buy school uniforms and books, etc.

-                      They are sent to monastic schools for “free” education, but usually only up to grade five.

-                      The regime banned monasteries from upgrading existing primary schools to secondary education so that children will have to attend fee-paying state schools.

-                      Many poor children cannot continue education after primary school.

-                      The monastic schools have to rely on donations, selling produce and handicrafts, even building shops on monastery land to rent out to local business people.

To add insult to injury, the children have to collect alms for the upkeep of their schools and to ensure that their schools will continue.

For more information:

¨       ‘Save Our Schools’

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