ING Chances for Children is an ING worldwide corporate program that aims to give 50,000 children in India, Brazil and Ethiopia access to education before the end of 2007 and to improve the quality of education in the local communities in which ING businesses are active.Over the past few years, ING has started local initiatives known as community development activities, which are good examples of how to contribute towards the development of child education. To create a strong base for all such community initiatives, the activities have been united under the ING Chances for Children program.
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- To provide primary education for 50,000 children over a period of three years.
- To improve the quality of education in the communities in which ING businesses are active.
- To involve as many of the ING Group’s 115,000 employees as possible, either as ambassadors, volunteers or donors.
Nearly one billion people are unable to read a book or sign their name.- Of all illiterate people, 98% live in developing countries. Two-thirds of them are women.
- Worldwide, 115 million children aged 4-12 don’t have access to primary education.
- In 19 out of 44 African countries, more than half of all children will not complete primary education.
- In the world's least developed countries, only 14 % of secondary school enrolment is female.
- Most adults who have completed less than five or six years of schooling remain functionally illiterate for the rest of their lives.
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