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School facilities

"Most of South Africa's 32,000 schools have no libraries or laboratories. Most pupils have to study with too few desks and chairs, and without enough textbooks. School buildings are often ramshackle buildings that are unsafe for educational purposes."

Educational need

"[In Africa] 15,000 schools do not yet have electricity supplied. [This means] no photocopiers, or other equipment, so essential in modern education, can be used. 17,000 schools do not have telephones. 10,000 schools have no running water."

About 20,000 schools [in South Africa], with 10 million pupils, have no libraries and few books

"About 20,000 schools [in South Africa], with 10 million pupils, have no libraries and few books, even if they do have shelves." Community H.E.A.R.T.

Discarded bicycles

"Every year Americans buy 14 million new bicycles and discard 5 million old ones, leaving many more of them abandoned and unused in basements, sheds and garages across the United States. Meanwhile, poor people in the developing third world countries need cheap, non-polluting transportation to get...

Child poverty

"Around 121 million children, the majority of them girls, do not attend school and are denied their right to an education."