To homelessness, McKinney- Vento Act is the only governmental assistance. It was originated for the first time in 1987 when the phenomena of homelessness were significantly increasing in the United States of American. It provided the educational system to the homeless people. At first, its purpose was to meet the needs of homeless people, but later it extended to provide educational facilities as well to the homeless children (States, 2011) (18). With regards to homelessness, Yon (2006) (19) stated that one of the major challenges homeless children experience is a rejection of the education. In terms of offering education to homeless children, the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act is very effective.
The McKinney-Vento Act offers national financial support to states in order to provide assistance which helps homeless students (States, 2011) (18). Also, the McKinney-Vento Act program has helped substantially homeless people in particular homeless children in order to retain their permanent accommodation. The motto of McKinney-Vento Act was that no child should leave behind. To be more precise, they wanted to make that every child has an access to school. The McKinney Homeless Act was officially approved by the Congress to keep the rights of homeless students and to confirm that …show more content…
For such a country, it is very unbelievable to take similar actions as the American government did. Certainly, it is commonly understood that the Afghan government is out-sourced. However, the nation can play a key role in making efforts in order to facilitate education to homeless children. The nation can begin by taking very small steps and the Afghan nation can do it in several ways. They can begin paying the government a very small amount of tax. The amount of paying the tax may be very small, but it can at least provide education for thirty homeless