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  Photo: Foundation for Inclusive Community Help Foundation for Inclusive Community Help, a rural grassroots organization in Uganda, provides support for formal and informal education and promotes job creation for youth. guest column By Emmanuel Otoo Education is so much more than an opportunity to go to school; it is an opportunity to determine one’s future, to establish a voice within and outside of one’s community, and to dream beyond the limits of one’s circumstances. Education has the capacity to lift people out of poverty and to interrupt intergenerational poverty by equipping children and youth with the skills needed to obtain employment and command higher wages (Haveman and Wolfe, 2001; Huisman and Smits, 2009; Post, 2002). Education also brings with it countless social benefits, such as an improvement in self-esteem, knowledge about one’s environment, and information on