エチオピアで、アメリカ合衆国の民間団体のTrampled Roseは、女のこ達に学校教育を受けさせようと26の学校を建設し、5'924人の女のこ達に教育を保証し、貧困からの脱出を企る。
Rescatadas por la educación
Miles de niñas en Etiopía escapan de una vida de pobreza y sumisión gracias a una red de 26 escuelas creada por una ONG estadounidense
FOTOGALERÍA: Una nueva vida para 5.000 niñas
Ana Palacios Addis Abeba 15 ABR 2014 - 19:01 CET
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Redeemed by education
Thousands of girls in Ethiopia escape a life of poverty and submission through a network of 26 schools created by a U.S. NGO
PHOTO GALLERY: A new life for girls 5000
Ana Palacios Addis Ababa 15 ABR 2014 - 19:01 CET
" Five thousand girls are not going to prostitute . Five thousand girls will not serve Arab houses . Five thousand girls do not go to work as laborers load . " Here's how the American Becky Kiser , founder of the NGO Trampled Rose, was excited summarized his 10 years of struggle for women 's rights in Ethiopia. The organization, which started out serving women with obstetric fistula and now that is almost eradicated, invests all his energy on prevention, primarily for the education of girls. " The more girls get to go to school and improve their lives over the situation in the country ," says Becky.
During these years of exhaustive work , has managed to enroll 5,294 children in rural areas of central Ethiopia ( North Showa) in 26 schools in the area . Each of the girls has been selected by his dramatic personal situation. Rescued from a living death and elected to stop "survive" and start "living " .
Birtuken Ajeba is 18 years old and in 9th grade (3rd of ESO ) . It is overdue . He lost two years of school because he could not pay 250 Birr (about 10 euros ) which costs the mandatory uniform . Birtuken had to work seven days a week for two years as a laborer in the construction of roads in order to save that money and buy one . Now get assistance from Trampled Rose, has a brand new uniform , books and medical attention if needed . They have also rented a room in the village of Aga Abdisa , near the school , and not have to walk for hours to get to class.
" When I grow up I want to be a doctor and help many girls to not have to work to study , as you ," Becky told Birtuken with voice broken with emotion . Now you can devote all their time to study, even if you feel like being a teenager , and try to forget that I had to be an adult during childhood.
The distances between the 17 schools I visited, dotted with mountains of North Showa , meeting girls Trampled Rose, are short (about 100 km each way ) . However, the labyrinthine dirt roads or signal , coiled, almost 3,000 meters of altitude , the thousands of potholes, dust and two boxes of Biodramina that consumed in three weeks, made me feel that I was embarking on the expedition Phoenician circumnavigation of Africa told by Herodotus , at least .
Education in general and in particular , the education of girls is a fundamental key to poverty reduction . Educate multiplies your chances for employment and income rather than working alone in the house , have better health preventing contagious diseases , etc. . It is shown that also has a great impact on the health of their children and promotes sustainable population growth. In fact , the number of children of women with secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa is half ( three children ) than women with no education (six children).
" Nearly 800 women die every day from causes that could have been avoided with prevention related to pregnancy and childbirth. If all women will end the cycle of primary education , maternal mortality would decrease by 66 %, thus being saved 189,000 lives per year, " according to the latest report published by the United Nations 'Education for all' .
In 2006 , the Ethiopian government revised the law of the family and was established as the minimum age for marriage at 18 years . This facilitated the work of the NGOs in the education of girls helping to ensure compliance with this law by avoiding early marriage and premature births often resulting in tragedies such as obstetric fistula or death of the child and even the mother.
"These girls from poor families as if they were not at school , they would be prostituting or serving in South Africa or Saudi Arabia or working on their farms ," said Getu Mengistu , head of external resources and monitoring of funds from the Department of Education in the state of Oromia .
Penzeb Habtamy , who lives in the remote town of Dera , is the brightest student of Bitotsa School , tells us: "I sleep three hours a day , the day I'm studying or in class. I could not go to school because they had to work with my father in the field . When Trampled Rose found me , I had no hope. Now I have to worry about finding food , I can study . I feel I have been reborn . "
Penzeb be the first student of these five thousand girls go to college . Already have guaranteed access and study medicine. Thanks to Trampled Rose , some Ethiopian girls can change their look of deep sadness to one of illusion.
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