Module 1: Poverty & Basic Human Needs
Poverty & Basic Education
Fact Sheets
How to use the Fact Sheets
You can bring out information in this fact sheet through class discussion, prompting students with leading questions, group reading, etc. You many want to bring out different elements in the fact sheet while doing various learning activities in the unit. You may also use this fact sheet as a handout for students or adapt it to your classroom.
The desire to learn is not only a human instinct but education is a universal human right.
Fast Facts: Basic Education
More than 77 million children of primary-school age are not in school.
More than half of these are girls.
(UNESCO, 2008)
