CHILDHOOD INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION

Most people are oblivious of the importance of the first years in a child’s life and education. In terms of guiding them correctly and preparing them to acquire feelings, responsibility, and common sense. Regardless of their health importance, there is an emotional and mental aspect that children must acquire. This is considered an investment in childhood.

Although mothers and society are not aware of the importance of breastfeeding and replacing it with another breastfeeding woman other than the biological mother has an important psychological impact on children and affects them mentally. The absence of the mother and the community from investing in childhood causes psychological and social problems and its impact is not just on children and their families. But this impact will affect the national economy, which will resort to many developmental solutions to address these problems, which will be costly. They will have to deal with psychological and educational treatments in all the educational sectors and their following sectors.

In actuality, our awareness and our role in investing in childhood appropriately… will reverse the previous results very well for the children themselves, their families, the economy, the nation, and society.

In 2016, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake encouraged world leaders to strengthen and accelerate global actions and investments in the development and nutrition program for children. As a very important basis for achieving equitable development and economic growth, and the need to establish a new alliance aimed at giving early childhood development a global priority when setting policies, programs, and general agreement.

Early childhood experiences have a profound impact on brain development, the learning process, the level of health, and the income of the adult individual, and based on what was mentioned in the Incheon Declaration …Education until 2030 is related to the fourth goal of the sustainable development goals, which is education. “The first few years of a child’s life are the most important period of a mother’s development. In it, children begin to focus on forming their own concepts of self and the surrounding world…… “

There are many important sayings in the field of sustainable development and investment for children. Children are the human oil in our society. And they are the vision of the 2030 generation. In fact, they are the alternative to all kinds of oil and fortunes. So, we have to invest it in a big and a good way, as it will be our balance and its impact will be incredible after nearly 15 years, which is the amount of our investment now.

Child investment in the Middle East and North Africa and the third world countries, in particular, is one of the lowest rates around the world, according to UNICEF. However, Saudi Arabia, with its ambitious and driven vision, is expected to lead the Gulf and the Arab world soon, and it can compete globally, even after its reliance on qualitative programs for the development of childhood and investment in children within the strategic programs to achieve the vision of the Kingdom. We hope that we will find our Arab world one of the strongest investors and builders of a humane and secular society that will achieve the greatest results in all fields around the world.

As you sow, you will reap. We must sow the seeds of humanity and good social interaction in our children so that we do not procure a prosperous future.