My birthday wish: qualitative education for all children
Iryna Corbeanu Teach for Romania
I truly believe that if you wish to do something good to others or to make the society somehow better, then you should just do it.
I am lucky to have great parents, that understood the importance of education and supported me even when they were struggling a lot. They also had very good parents, so I guess that I am who I am just because in my family we had a chain of educated and intelligent people. If you don’t build the same chains in other families it means that there is no chance to get this great future that everyone wishes.
There are other children that don’t have the same luck as I had. They don’t have education and great educators, people to support them into becoming fully functional adults that contribute to society. Good education is not just having knowledge, but it provides you the passion to work, the wish to strive to become better, the intelligence of making good choices in life, the ability to analyze and filter the information that you get from outside. Good education makes you face your failures with dignity, ready to learn from them and to correct your mistakes. There are so many kids without access to a future where they can become this type of person.
I choose to support the future of these kids, as I choose to support the future of this country. If we really want a future with a better society, we need to support the education and the future generations that will influence our lives. We are used to complain without doing anything; here, even if it’s a small step, it is a step forward towards a better chance to Romania.
I was asked why I don’t donate my birthday for the country that I love the most, my home country, Ukraine. I could do exactly that, donate by myself to an NGO there, where the issue of lack of access to qualitative education is same relevant like in Romania. But I choose not only to donate, I choose to start a campaign that gets more people informed and involved in their own future, in the future of their country and society. So, I choose Romania, I choose Teach for Romania.
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