ACCORDING to international media reports, the UN celebrated its Convention on the Rights of the Child last week, where Unicef underscored the need for urgent action to prevent millions of children from missing out the benefits of innovations. The international children agency also called on the governments, development professionals, businesses, activists and communities to work together to come up with new ideas for tackling some of the most pressing problems faced by the children and to find new ways of scaling up the best and most promising local innovations in the benefits of the children globally.
Reports also added that Unicef cited an innovative idea of a Bangladeshi for providing children with education in a report titled “Re-imagine the future for every child” which was launched marking the occasion. The report said about the floating schools that give children, living in flood-prone regions across the country, year-round access to education, which were initiated by Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha – a Bangladeshi NGO. The latest edition of Unicef’s flagship report argues that innovations have helped drive radical changes in the lives of millions of children in the last 25 years and more innovative products, processes, and partnerships are critical to realising the rights of children. The core theme of the plan is to make better use of such innovative universally and to the unreached children in particular.
It is pertinent for educators and people involved in social services to create innovative ways to provide access to education for children who live in impoverished and unreached areas. This would not only help in the development of the children in the area, but also spread knowledge to the future generations. We need leadership to appreciate that education for all is the way to build a nation. But our politics has very little to do with education or competence and more to do with muscle power. It is most worrying for us that our education system is being permanently damaged by polluted politics when teachers are encouraged to be political activists. It is not that we do not have highly educated people who know what is going wrong with our education for the children and others. But they are too meek to play their brave role in nation building efforts.
