Education is a basic right every child is entitled to under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Aside from being a universal human right at the individual level, education in all forms, formal and informal, is a critical determinant of the well-being of present and future generations because it enables people to: understand and modify their environment and therefore better cope with life’s circumstances; choose healthier diets, behaviours, and lifestyles; develop their income generating capacities and create more work possibilities; seek quality health care for themselves and their children and thereby facilitate improvements in health status and life expectancy; and enrol and see their children through school and thereby interrupt the processes of intergenerational poverty transfer.