She and her foundation are helping thousands of rural children attend school by providing them with uniforms, supplies and other services.
And it also says it will abolish primary-school fees for all children in rural areas by 2007.
In general, poor children living in rural areas are more likely than urban children from rich households to repeat grades and leave school before completing primary education and attaining basic foundational skills.
Therafter, Reddy had devoted himself to a variety of philanthropic causes, including providing drinking water to rural areas and mid-day meals to school-going children.
Rural households are feeling the pinch too, with children pulled out of school to work on family land.
In 2005, for example, it was estimated that enrolment in most rural schools was below 80%, with more than 20% of primary school children subsequently dropping out of school.
About one third children in KP province are out of school and 71% rural women are illiterate, informed Arshad Saeed Khan, Senior National Specialist (Education) of UNESCO during his presentation.
Nationwide, Hispanic and school-aged children were disproportionately uninsured as well as those living in rural areas.
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According to UNESCO, a CLC is as a community-based non-formal educational institution or organisation which provides a range of services and learning opportunities to out-of-school children, youth and illiterate or semi-literate adults from socially disadvantaged rural and urban communities.
Life in Beijing is much better than back in rural Hebei, says Li: his wages cover the family's rent, tuition for the underground school for migrant children that his kids attend, as well as the odd night of karaoke.
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