There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
– Sachin Tendulkar

Education is the future of man. In the 20th century, education is necessary for everyone. Like uneducated people live under the shadow of the educated, illiterate nations live under the shadow of literate nations. Even today, education remains a dream for many. Millions of children enrolled in a primary school are not able to attend regularly, while the millions of uneducated parents lack the knowledge required to earn money to be able to improve living conditions for both themselves and their children.

The reasons why people lack education are numerous. The following are some reasons:
• Gender based inequality contributes to lack of education, even for children in the same household
• Physically disabled children are often judged when they study in the same classroom as other children
• Poor health often doesn’t let children attend school
• Cultural background such as ethnicity, language or religion
• Poverty doesn’t allow them to avail education
• Unemployment of parents doesn’t allow regular payment of fees to educational institutions
• Often they cannot take part in various activities due to illnesses
• Illiterate parents do not understand the necessity of education and hence think that it is better to make their children work rather than go to school
• Lack of adequate number of schools
• Unavailability of proper schooling materials such as books
• Improperly trained teachers
• Girls are given work at home whle boys are allowed to study for a better future

Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.
– Malala Yousafzai
Lack of education has long since transformed into a global issue. It causes the lack of jobs and does poverty, and in turn, this poverty doesn’t allow their children to study. Most private schools cost a lot of money. Government schools are rarely well-equipped enough to provide quality education. Most developing countries suffer from such lack of education. Parents often impose upon their children a field of study which the child may not like to study. This creates issues in the long run and the child may drop out of school or not gain education at all. Getting a degree without being properly educated causes frustration in the long run. Parents should not impose their will upon their children and instead let them decide for themselves. The most that they can do is to provide proper education and inspire their children to study. Lack of knowledge about different fields of studies due to unavailability of proper career council often leads them into studying for over-saturated careers which may be hard to succeed in.

Education is often poorly measured and their statistics do not show properly in surveys. Children not attending schools goes largely unreported and their parents prefer not to inform the authorities. In many households, family members themselves may discourage the child from studying since they themselves had not attended school. Deprivation from education doesn’t allow children to develop basic mathematical and cognitive skills which are required in order to survive. Strict and immediate actions should be taken by the Government in order to eradicate this problem. The young generation of today is the future of tomorrow.

“Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not – water is political, and litigious. Transporting water is impractical for both political and physical reasons, so buying up water rights did not make a lot of sense to me, unless I was pursuing a greater fool theory of investment – which was not my intention.”
– Michael Burry
The advantage of having a clean water source to drink from, good sanitary procedures and decent hygiene practices can only be identified when all three of these are available together. Beyond the few obvious and immediate effects available, these practices have a wider effect on women and girls. For the implementation of these facilities, well – resourced capable institutions are required.
A person without access to clean drinking water is forced to depend on other sources. These sources include surface water, contaminated water bodies or unverified sources of supposedly clean water. These might contribute to several diseases. Drinking contaminated water may result in several diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio. Without proper treatment, most of these diseases may prove fatal in the long run.
I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.
– Naveen Jain
Without access to proper sanitary facilities, people are forced to use improper sources. Defecation is performed in either community latrines which are inherently dirty, or have to defecate in the open. Exposed faecal matter in the environment may be recycled back into people’s food, making open defecation extremely dangerous. Cholera is expressly spread through these practices. The lack of water disposal systems and sewerage systems contaminate the environment and cause diseases.
To most people in need, hygiene is quite a foreign concept. They are unaware of good hygienic practises and their contributions in protecting us from diseases. Even people who do possess such knowledge are unable to maintain proper hygiene due to lack of necessary supplies. Such supplies include things such as lack of soap, clean water and washing facilities. These are important to protect themselves and people around them.
UNICEF works towards improving such conditions through several actions like the following:
• Empowering communities
• Supporting schools
• Humanitarian actions
• Responding to COVID-19
• Increasing focus on sustainability
• Partnerships
Hundreds of thousands of children die every year from diseases such as diarrhoea. Around 88% of deaths from diarrhoea are due to these contributing factors. Millions of people worldwide are infected with tropical diseases that arise from these factors. These diseases include the Guinea Worm Disease (GWD) which is an extremely dangerous disease. The infected is attacked by parasitic worms which painfully spread out through the body. GWD is usually caused due to drinking contaminated water. Other diseases include Trachoma, a disease caused due to facial uncleanliness. This disease characteristically causes poor vision or blindness. The Government should identify these problems and work towards improving these. With proper attention, education and provisions for clean water, these diseases can be easily avoided. People in rural areas should be informed about poor hygiene practises and on how to improve the same. Banners and hoardings can be put up. Advertisements on national television may spread this information far and wide. Sanitary supplies such as soaps and tissues can be made free for the public and distributed periodically.

“It’s not that the world hasn’t had more carbon dioxide, it’s not that the world hasn’t been warmer. The problem is the speed at which things are changing. We are inducing a sixth mass extinction event kind of by accident and we don’t want to be the ‘extinctee.’”
– Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy’
Changes in environment worldwide has had an effect on climate. The amount of ice whether on streams or lakes have vastly reduced throughout the ages. Researchers have anticipated several effects of changes in worldwide environmental changes. Among them are contraction of icy masses, separation of ice in streams and lakes, moving plant and creature ranges and early growth of trees. Other such effects include loss of ocean ice, sped up ocean level ascent and warm ocean waves. Worldwide temperatures are expected to rise soon and are expected to keep rising to a great extent mainly due to human by-products that effect the ozone layer of the atmosphere.
“One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn’t any more available.”
– Stephen Hawking, Physicist & Author



Some of the future effects of climate changes are:
• Changes will continue in the future – the extent of these changes across the following years relies principally upon the measure of heat-trapping gasses discharged globally amd how sensitive the Earth is to these emanations.
• Since it is human-induced, warming is superimposed on a naturally varying climate. Thus the temperature rises across countries will not be level over time.
• Frost-free season will lengthen – This will effect the ecosystem and agriculture. As globally emissions will increase much slowly if the emission of heat-trapping gases are reduced.
• Changes in precipitation patterns – changes in precipitation patterns contribute to sudden heavy precipitation
• More droughts and heat waves – Summer temperatures are expected to continue rising and hereby reduce moisture in the soil. This reduces heat and projected and contributes largely over long time periods.
• Hurricanes – The frequency and duration of hurricanes are increasing with time. Although the contributions of humans towards increasing intensity of hurricanes has been unknown, it recent hurricanes have been quite intense.
• Rise in sea levels – The global sea level has risen by about 8 inches since starting record keeping since 1880. This is due to the melting of ice and polar ice caps. With combined effects, storm surges and high tides cause massive floods in many regions. Rise in sea level will continue and this rate is estimated to rise in future. With such occurences, the arctic ocean will essentially become ice free in summer before the mid century.
Frequent climatic changes are highly damaging to the country’s economy. Several people cannot work properly in these harsh climatic conditions. Businesses are also effected in such conditions. We must take care of Nature in order to prevent such harsh climatic conditions and such frequent climatic changes. The only way to do so is through education of young people in these topics. Schools and colleges should make these topics compulsory in their curriculum. Seminars and practical sessions should be held on the topic of the conservation of Nature.

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.
– Martin Seligman
The future of society depends upon the health of the children of today and their mothers. Every kid has the right to a sound and healthy start to their life, and their mothers ought to receive quality medical services and medicines during pregnancy and labor. Too many children continue to die prematurely day after day in spite of so many advancements. Poorer children are almost six times more likely to pass away before their fifth birthday in comparison to their wealthier counterparts. New-borns in poorer countries are in much higher risk of death than in richer countries. Although for a family with sufficient money, the birth of a child is a thing of great joy, for families without sufficient opportunities, it is often a period of dread. Accodring to the World Health Organization (WHO), pregnancy and childbirth cause the deaths of nearly 800 such women every day. It is possible to avoid such circumstances with the introduction of proper and timely healthcare. Healthy children are a prime asset of the human world, while hunger and malnutrition often cause reduced cognitive development and intellectual performance in most children.
Occurrences of deaths due to pregnancy and childbirth are mostly prevalent in rural areas, where proper facilities are not available. These pregnant mothers mostly need to travel long distances in order to avail such services. The journey in these situations is long and arduous, and more often than not is not possible to be undergone by most. Even when they arrive at the medical facilities after a difficult journey, they often find these facilities to be understaffed and underprepared, not capable to carry out such procedures. Minority communities often face discrimination at local healthcare facilities which contributes to a higher-than-average fatality rate for such people. More often than not, medical knowledge is not put into good use due to the unavailability of a necessary number of facilities to perform such procedures. Poverty, cultural traditions and legal affairs often forbid mothers from seeking proper healthcare for themselves and their offsprings. Provision of water and decent sanitation must be done. Newborns must be kept away from indoor pollutants like the gas produced when coal is burnt in order to cook food. Mothers often are unaware of proper maternal procedures due to lack of education. Timely introduction of properly complementary foods according to a child’s age must be taken care of.
Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.
– Dennis Kucinich
With modern scientific and technological advancements, it is very well possible to treat any complications with regard to pregnancy and childbirth. Spending money on such healthcare services by the Government is a very rational decision and is in the interest of the nation. Adequately staffed hospitals should be available in close proximity of even sparsely populated rural areas. Medical representatives must be well educated about humanity and minority communities in order to reduce discriminatory acts which are quite prevalent in today’s age. Health check-ups and medicine could be made free for such young mothers in need. Working together, the World Health Organization and the World Bank are advancing towards the practise of proper healthcare practises throughout the world.