Achieve universal primary education

Achieving/Preventing a better world

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Overview:

Every child has the right to go to school; however, there are currently about 72 million children out of school. Nearly half of those children live in sub-Saharan Africa (UNESCO estimates). Literacy can help eradicate poverty, achieve gender equality, and ensure sustainable development, peace and democracy. EradicationAchieve ofuniversal extremeprimary poverty and hungereducation is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.

Overview:

Every child has the right to go to school; however, there are currently about 72 million children out of school. Nearly half of those children live in sub-Saharan Africa (UNESCO estimates). Literacy can help eradicate poverty, achieve gender equality, and ensure sustainable development, peace and democracy. Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.

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Achieve/Prevent universal primary education
Overview:

Every child has the right to go to school; however, there are currently about 72 million children out of school. Nearly half of those children live in sub-Saharan Africa (UNESCO estimates). Literacy can help eradicate poverty, achieve gender equality, and ensure sustainable development, peace and democracy.

Added Effect: Achieving/Preventing a better world