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Nearly 260 million children are still out of school – does the world care?

Photojournalist Paddy Dowling travels to Tanzania to discover how poverty continues to be one of the greatest barriers to education – and how children are often forced into a life of work to support their families
There are 258 million children and young people around the world with no access to education – 59 million at the primary level alone, according to Unesco’s Institute for Statistics.

Today, poverty remains one of the greatest barriers to enrolment in education programmes. No better example of this can be illustrated than in rural and remote parts of Tanzania, where a 12-year-old boy, out of school, forced into a life of work, trapped in a dead-end cycle of danger and despair so he can provide for his family, provides perspective. He says: “I have no choice, I know the work is dangerous but I feel I have to help provide for my brothers and sisters. It makes me sad not being able to go to school.”