Over 60m girls remain out of school around the world. “If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman, you educate a nation”. An educated woman is better able to educate her own children who will be more likely to receive school education themselves. The family will likely be healthier, with lower infant mortality and better maternal nutrition. Just one extra year of secondary education can increase a woman’s income as much as 25% a year. Women with a sound education will not only earn more themselves, they will contribute more to their household and national economies. They will also be less likely to fall victim to the scourge of human trafficking and forced child marriages, and be better able to protect themselves from contracting preventable diseases like HIV. This is not a situation any thinking or feeling person can stand by and tolerate. Plan’s Children in Focus report puts the global economic price of failing to educate girls to the same level as boys at $92bn each year. The world cannot afford this. #GirlsEducation
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:00:01 +0000
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