Instructions: Read the article and match the headings to the correct paragraph

✔ Ask yourself – What is the main idea of the paragraph?

Because they have disabilities Because they’re a child labourer

Because there is no school Because of poor sanitation
Because of too few teachers Because of child marriage
Because they live in war zones Because of natural disasters
Because their countries are poor Because they are girls

1. _____________________
The picture shows girls at
a primary school in Somalia -
a country where only 36% of
girls go to school. The Go To
School program was started
last year across Somalia to
change that. Girls make up
over half of children out of
primary education across the
world and only 30% of all girls
are enrolled in secondary
school. In many countries, due to poverty, security or cultural factors, boys will be
educated but girls will not. According to UNESCO it will take until 2089 for the
poorest girls to finish primary school if we continue at the current rate.

2. _________________________
Thousands of children have left
their homes in South Sudan since
fighting started in the country. Experts
say that 48.5 million children
worldwide are missing school because
of wars and conflicts. Nearly half of
the Syrian school population are not
attending classes and approximately
290 schools have been destroyed or
damaged in recent fighting in
 3. ______________________________
Ukraine.Around 150 million children in the
world live with a disability - 80% of them are
in developing countries and nine out of 10 of
these children do not attend school.
Problems include issues like transportation –
many children have to walk to school - and
many countries do not have programs to
support children with disabilities.

4. ____________________________
Some of the poorest countries in
the world struggle to provide an
education system for all their children.
But if we invest more in education,
poverty is reduced at a faster rate, there
are long-term health benefits, and
greater gender equality.

5. __________________________
These girls are from Nigeria,
where 10.5 million children are out of
school. More than 60% of them are
girls in the north of the country and
child marriage is a major cause of
them dropping out. Boys can be
affected, but most victims of child
marriage are girls. It is estimated that
15 million girls are married before they
turn 18. After their wedding, they leave
the education system and since they
have little education, they and their
families are more likely to live in poverty.
6.___________________________

Events such as earthquakes,

floods and disease can make it hard
for many children to get an education.
For example, typhoons in the
Philippines and Ebola in Africa caused
schools to close, affecting millions of
children.

7. ___________________________
In order to provide a primary
school education to all children
across the world, 5.2 million
teachers need to be recruited. There
are not enough qualified teachers,
so one in five children who attend
primary school in sub–Saharan
Africa are unable to read or write by
the time they leave.

8.
____________________________

By mid-afternoon, most children

around the world are watching the
clock and waiting for the bell to ring so
that they can go home. But there are
more than 168 million child laborers -
11% of all children in the world - who
are working instead of learning. More
than half of them work in farming and
almost a third in service jobs
(housekeeping, cleaning, and
restaurant work).
9. ______________________
In many parts of the
world, it’s not as easy as
raising your hand and asking
to go to the toilet. Many girls
don't go to school because of
a lack of privacy and water
shortages. A charity called
Water Aid reported that just
45% of schools in poor
countries had good sanitation
facilities. A school sanitation
program in Bangladesh saw
an 11% rise in girls' enrolment.

10. _________________________
In some parts of the world,
there just aren't any schools. Many
children in the developing world are
taught outdoors when the weather
is nice. And many schools don't even have desks or equipment. In sub- Saharan
Africa, more than 95 million schoolchildren don't have a desk; there are over 400
million children worldwide who don’t have a desk.