Classroom poverty

I’m in the middle of an exciting 3 day forum with Micah Challenge coordinators from across Europe, Canada and North America...

 

Yesterday we spent a lot of time talking about advocacy for the poor.  What!? In Europe and America?!

I’m afraid so. Poverty may be a relative reality but even after 12 years of a Labour government Britain still has 4 million poor children and 1.7 of those are  ‘severely poor’ children.  And according to a recent Pirls report levels of literacy and comprehension has declined steadily between 2001-2006.

It’s particularly disappointing under a Labour government.  But that’s not the point.  It’s to point out that Christians in flourishing communities simply can’t afford to  pretend that speaking up for the poor (Proverbs 31:8,9) has nothing to do with us.

 

Read the Save the Children report at  www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/50_693.htm

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