Development experts have frequently isolated two crucial elements in the fight against poverty, and the two factors are health and education. You need to be healthy to bring a change in your life, but without an education, your options will be extremely limited. Therefore, we are preparing this list of the top charities in the education field.
10. Central Scholarship
Education is important for young children, but in the US, a post-secondary education degree can really elevate a family out of poverty. Central Scholarship helps achieve the goal of hundreds of young Americans looking for an opportunity to complete a college or university degree.
9. Pratham USA
An organization involved in bringing education to the slums of India. Founded in 1994, Pratham USA has reached over a million children in India, which had the highest number of illiterate children in a country in the 1990s.
8. Hands across the Sea
Reading is a wonderful escape from realities of life, and this is especially true for impoverished children. Reading can provide them with an imaginary world where anything is possible and where the dream comes true. This is an ability that can change the lives of young people and Hands Across The Sea provides access to books for kids in the Caribbean.
7. Hope Charities the USA
This small organization is doing some brilliant work and has collaborated on projects with large international organizations such as UNICEF, WHO and Centre for Disease Control (CDC). Hope Charities USA subsidizes education for over 700 students in Pakistan who could not afford to go to school otherwise.
6. Crayons to Classrooms
Education can be difficult if you do not have the right equipment. Simple items can help teachers and students achieve their goal, and this charitable organization makes it easy. A small organization operating in Ohio’s Miami Valley, Crayons to Classrooms, provides free school supplies to teachers.
5. Books for Africa
Another charity that focuses on the power of reading, this time focusing on the African continent. Books for Africa has supplied over 34 million books to 49 countries since 1988.
4. Teach for America
Teach for America is makes it in our top five for matching teachers looking to make an impact with low-income communities in the US.
3. Care
Care is a large organization involved in various aspects of social aid and alleviation of poverty around the world. The organization operates in 87 countries spread across the globe in South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The special attention they pay towards girls’ education propelled them to almost first on this list.
2. OBAT Helpers
This charitable organization runs schools in the worse slums of Bangladesh, a country with endemic poverty. OBAT Helpers provided scholarships to over 750 students in 2014, operated seven schools, 24 pre-schools, six tutoring centers and four computer training centers. The charity is a God-send for some of the most impoverished citizens for the world.
1. Saving the Children
It is wonderful to help internationally, where the need is so monumental, yet charity always starts at home. Even though the US is an advanced nation, we have pockets of communities that are underprivileged and need educational assistance to turnaround the lives of their members. Saving the Children gets our top prize for ensuring children living in the US’s poorest neighborhoods can get a decent education to set them up for future success.
