Alexandra Marintzer
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Education can be the hand to pull families out of the cycle of poverty.
My husband and I are passionate about education; we see education as something that every person has the right to. Receiving an education can be the difference between generations of poverty and generations of hope and revival. We have a strong desire to step out into the world of global education and see first-hand where schools need to be planted and/or what schools need assistance. We would like everyone who will read this to also have the opportunity to join with us in meeting the educational needs around the world. We hope to take a vision trip the winter of 2016 or summer of 2017 to learn more about the educational needs and to create a detailed platform for others to jump on either financially, physically or faithfully in your prayers.
What has brought us here in our life started about ten years ago, my husband and I became friends while in elementary education school together. While the Lord led me out of education and into the social sciences and ministry, God had my husband stay in education and he has taught at an elementary school for eight years now. I have walked by him every step of his journey and have burned with the same passions as he has to see the people of the world grow through freedom in Christ and in education. While I have been working in ministry and my husband in education we have found a place where our dreams have collided and we have started to dream of what it would look like for us to go on this mission for the Lord to bring education to those who need it most.
Some of you may not know some educational statistics in global education, so I thought I would share three of them with you from the “One Campaign”:
- “60 MILLION
More children in sub-Saharan Africa were enrolled in primary school in 2013 than in 2000, thanks to savings from debt relief, development assistance for education and focus from African governments.
- 4 MILLION
More teachers are needed in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve universal primary education by 2015.
- 8 MILLION
Children’s lives could be saved each year if all women had access to secondary education.”[2]
As you can see from only these three stats, lack of access to quality education, especially among the poorest and among girls, is preventing millions of people from the cycle of extreme poverty around the world. My husband and I have a great heart to help in any way the Lord leads us to. We are very open to ideas from the readers to give their input on creative and awareness spreading ways to raise support in our mission to help the global fight for primary and secondary education for every person.
[1] Used with permission by Creative Commons license by flickr.com
[2] “Education: The Challenge,” ONE, accessed May 8, 2016, https://www.one.org/international/issues/education/#.