GOAL 2 : UNIVERSAL EDUCATION

girls, both of them are 12 years old, ... Kawy is a small girl who lives in Zimbawe, ... A - Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be ...
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GOAL 2 : UNIVERSAL EDUCATION Target 2.A - Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. I'm going to present you two girls, both of them are 12 years old, one of them is Marie, she lives in France and she goes every day to school, she has a portable computer to write her lessons, and a teacher for each subject. When she has good marks, her parents buy her some sweets or some new toys. She's happy and her dream is to have a horse.

Kawy is a small girl who lives in Zimbawe, she is obliged to stay at home doing housework because the only college which is more or less near her village is at 12 kilometres on foot and her parents earn just enough money to eat. When she fi nishes doing housework she must go to a mine to break stones which will be used by the french people to build motorways. Kawy is obliged to marry a fi fty year old man when she is 14 ans. Her dream is to go to school.

These two lives are very different, people from rich countries aren't aware because their children go to college every day and receive some prizes when they have good marks. It's incredible that these two lives take place on the same planet... Today, on the 67 millions of children who don't go to school, 53% are girls, and on the 796 millions of adults who can neither read nor write, two thirds are women (source : Unesco).