Less Than 1% (Of the Education Budget)

less than 1%
of the education budget
is what it would take

less than 1%
of the education budget
for a library in every school
in the country (over 10 years)

less than 1%
the initial provisions
of infrastructure, materials
and training

how many more illiterate
(and innumerate too)
how many more lives
living in standard grade

a government of the people
occasionally even for the people
in particular around election time
(but) has not made provision for this

less than 1%
of the education budget
is what it would take

why does it take
so long

Equal Educations weekly Friday (29 Jan 2010) fact of the day got this one going, in preparation for their Sharpeville Day Equal Education - Human Rights Concert and March for School Libraries.

David Kapp, david_kapp@yahoo.com