Upward Mobility for the World’s Destitute
Though poverty rates are dropping worldwide, the ‘ultrapoor’ tend to stay where they are. BRAC works to break the poverty
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From Tina Rosenberg / New York Times: Volunteers with the Annual Status of Education Report test children’s math and reading skills in villages across India. While 96 percent of Indian children are in school, ASER, organized by a nongovernmental group called Pratham, reveals that many of them are not receiving a real education. “Learning camps”, an initiative called Read India, and grouping children by ability, not age, are helping bridge the gap.
Though poverty rates are dropping worldwide, the ‘ultrapoor’ tend to stay where they are. BRAC works to break the poverty
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