http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/june/11/yehey/top_stories/20060611top1.html
The
Manila Times, Sunday, June 11, 2006
SPECIAL REPORT
Nearly impossible to feed their brains with lessons because
6 million pupils go to school hungry
Basic education: The poverty and malnutrition factors
By Likha Cuevas
WHAT if the classroom shortage, the poor quality of textbooks and the lack of intellectually and pedagogically qualified teachers are solved? How wonderful it would be if all Filipino children can be in education’s enchanted kingdom.
Do you think the problems of Philippine basic education would then disappear?
No! Not for almost one-third of all school-age Filipino children. Of the 20 million schoolchildren who began the 2006-07 school year last week, almost 30 percent belong to families living below the poverty line. The children of these poor families, about six million of them, go to school hungry or in a state of malnutrition every day.
Some actually go to school without having had any kind of breakfast, others after eating a handful of rice and a piece of tuyo (dried fish). Well-to-do pupils who are used to three square meals a day might faint with hunger by three o’ clock p.m. if subjected to this kind of deprivation.
These poor children don’t take packed lunch and snacks with them. More than a third of them are likely to be suffering from different ranges of malnutrition.
You cannot think straight—you cannot absorb what you are being taught—when you’re hungry. The body has to address its more basic need first before it can address the cognitive need of the mind.
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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/june/11/yehey/top_stories/20060611top1.html
The
Manila Times, Sunday, June 11, 2006
SPECIAL REPORT
Nearly impossible to feed their brains with lessons because
6 million pupils go to school hungry
Basic education: The poverty and malnutrition factors
By Likha Cuevas
WHAT if the classroom shortage, the poor quality of textbooks and the lack of intellectually and pedagogically qualified teachers are solved? How wonderful it would be if all Filipino children can be in education’s enchanted kingdom.
Do you think the problems of Philippine basic education would then disappear?
No! Not for almost one-third of all school-age Filipino children. Of the 20 million schoolchildren who began the 2006-07 school year last week, almost 30 percent belong to families living below the poverty line. The children of these poor families, about six million of them, go to school hungry or in a state of malnutrition every day.
Some actually go to school without having had any kind of breakfast, others after eating a handful of rice and a piece of tuyo (dried fish). Well-to-do pupils who are used to three square meals a day might faint with hunger by three o’ clock p.m. if subjected to this kind of deprivation.
These poor children don’t take packed lunch and snacks with them. More than a third of them are likely to be suffering from different ranges of malnutrition.
You cannot think straight—you cannot absorb what you are being taught—when you’re hungry. The body has to address its more basic need first before it can address the cognitive need of the mind.
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http://www.malaysia-today.net/blog2006/newsncom.php?itemid=8351
19/09: One school uniform for a whole week
Category: General
Posted by: Raja Petra
Borneo PostPenan student lives with bare necessities at boarding school; some stop studying due to ‘hurtful’ teasingKUCHING: Every school day, 13-year-old Wendy Musa wears the same uniform which she washes once a week.
Even if it smells, she still has to wear it till Friday afternoon before she can do her laundry.
This is because she has no spare and her single mother cannot afford to buy her another.
This Penan girl from Ba’ Abang, Ulu Baram, Miri Division, aspires to be a teacher but is uncertain of her future because she doesn’t know how long her mother can continue supporting her in secondary school.
This teenager is the eldest in a family of six siblings and her mother has no other source of income to support the family except self-sufficient farming.
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