Learning is hope

 It's Monday morning, 6:00 A.M. and your alarms goes up. You get up and have to go through another week of school. Most of us don't like it, wish we could stay home and get some more sleep. But, have ever viewed waking up school in a different perspective.  We GET to wake up and GET to go to school.  Many people around the world do not even have the ability to go to school, or they are like Ahmed, where there are many barriers he faces to attend school and even is often separated from his family or homeland too.

However, for Ahmed this education acts as a beacon of hope in being surrounded with such a bleak and dim environment.  You see, in many of these places where Ahmed learns, the eduction materials is often limited or very bad.  It was so bad they were rationing crayons to two per person and some people got a white crayon, which is basically useless.  However through all this Ahmed's determination and passion prevails moving to wherever the education is the best and where he will get the most opportunities, which is how he moves and ends up in the United States.

Even more, in a global perspective, Ahmed's journey is what millions of children around the world face. They get denied any chance to learn and cannot escape that label of "refugee" leading them to a cycle of displacement and poverty in the world. Education has the power to change peoples lives by giving them opportunities in which they thought were never possible. Ahmed's journey shows us just that but also makes us reflect on the education inequalities around the world. It makes us want to make a change so everyone has the chance to learn.

Above is the page about the rationing of school materials talked about in the second paragraph








Comments

  1. NateDecember 15, 2024 at 2:48 PM

    Wow Avi, I really agree with you on how important education is, I think that education is one of the few things that can lift a family out of poverty, and in these extremely poor countries it is even more the case as getting a good education can open up opportunities to colleges in better countries like America.

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  2. Alex DanialDecember 15, 2024 at 3:05 PM

    Avi, this piece does an excellent job of shifting the reader's perspective on education, highlighting the privilege of attending school by contrasting it with Ahmed's inspiring determination amidst hardship.

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