Education should not be viewed simply as charity. It is an investment in human potential. The children sitting in classrooms today will become our future teachers, engineers, nurses, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

However, limited literacy reduces future employment opportunities, multiplies vulnerability to exploitation, street hawking, and child labour, and traps entire families in generational cycles of poverty. When millions of children are out of school, the consequences flow forward to cripple the entire national economy.

That is why I believe the conversation around corporate giving needs to evolve from: “How much can we give?” to “What problem can we help solve?”