Baligha Bhatti
2 min readFeb 29, 2020

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EDUCATION FOR POOR.

In Pakistan, poverty is a common issue, people who are rich keep getting rich and poor becomes more poor due to unstable economic conditions. But what we can do to help these people is by playing our small part in this.

EDHI SAHAB SAID: “I can begin small but why should I think small.

People in these areas do not have enough food, money or shelter to provide themselves. they don’t make enough to feed their children, how can they educate them.

Education can do wonders. If we are privileged enough, why stay back and wait for some heroic action to happen while we ourselves can bring change by small steps.

DUE TO LESS FAMILY EARNING, CHILDREN ARE FORCED TO WORK FROM VERY YOUNG AGE AND NEVER GET A CHANCE TO STUDY.

when we talked to a small boy in my university, why he keeps selling tissue papers instead of studying, he told me that his father doesn’t earn much and he has 6 siblings.

their whole life is spent, in freezing winters or burning summers on roads, at signals selling or begging. they wanted to learn new things, had craze about colored books but was forced to earn. their other siblings were selling at different places, they only ate 2 times a day.

Similarly, a boy selling balloons names Akmal asked me to help him get wheat for his family, i saw him everyday on streets, asking him he said same reply that his parents didn’t want him to study because he has to earn his living for family.

All they do is watch kids go to school with books and bags and they are selling balloons or tissue.

Education is as much necessary as food. Their parents might not see that as priority because for a hungry man food is basic need not education. but this kills a thousand dreams in these children’s eyes. For them food, clothes are needs, But they might never know what change can their kids bring by education.

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