4. Vulnerable Populations
Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, South &
West Asia
Bottom 5 countries for girls education
Somalia
Niger
Liberia
Mali
Burkina Faso
5. Barriers to Education
Direct cost
Indirect cost
Attitudes and practices
Health related issues
Transportation
Poor quality environment
8. Educate our girls
Build esteem and empower girls to make healthy choices
Critical adolescent age to develop positive motivations to be equipped
with tools and goals
Keep girls out of the risk of gangs, drugs, sex trafficking
Give them a sense of independence
Reduce the world's problems!
Educating for the future
9. 60%
Of the world’s countries have made it legally possible for
girls to attend school.
11. 3,000,000
If all women had a secondary education, child deaths would be
cut in half, saving 3 million lives
12. 60%
Almost 60% fewer girls would become pregnant under 17 years in
Sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia if they all had a
secondary education.
13. Breaking Barriers
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist for female education
and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize
laureate. She is known mainly for
human rights advocacy for education
and for women. In her native town the
local Taliban had at times banned girls
from attending school. Yousafzai's
advocacy has since grown into an
international movement.
14. Impact on public health
Fertility: Girls' education helps women control how many children they have. Increasing girls' participation in
school over time decreases fertility rate
In Mali, women with secondary education or higher have an average of 3 children while those with no
education have an average of 7 children.
Maternal Health: Increasing girls' access to education improves maternal health.
In Burkina Faso, mothers with secondary education are twice as likely to give birth more safely in health
facilities as those with no education
Child Survival: Increasing girls' education has positive effects on infant and child health.
A child born to a mother who can read is 50 percent more likely to survive past the age of 5 than a child
born to an illiterate woman
HIV/AIDS: Education decreases a girl's or woman's risk for contracting HIV or transmitting HIV to her baby.
16. Activity (15 minutes)
In groups of two, look at the the two community and create an objective plan to
improve the following:
Curriculum
Sanitation
Attendance rate
Student performance and student engagement
Also list some key interventions that will reduce the challenges of funding and
creating a comfortable learning environment (direct/indirect cost).
18. Educating girls to change
the world: reducing disparities in
public health
19.
20. Key Interventions
Providing scholarships/conditional cash
transfers
Reducing distance to school
Ensuring gender sensitive curriculum
Hiring qualified female teachers
Building safe and inclusive learning
environments
Ending child/early marriage
21. Oprah Winfrey Academy for Girls (OWLAG)
http://www.oprah.com/own-oprah-winfrey-leadership-academy-for-girls/the-first-day-
of-the-oprah-winfrey-leadership-academy-video_1
22. Organizations who put in work!
Girls, Inc
Road to Read
Girls on the Run
UNGEI
World Bank
Unicef
United Nations
23. Education Goals
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and
other types of exploitation
Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decisionmaking in political,
economic and public life
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and
other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the
empowerment of women
When you educate a girl,
everything changes.
-schooling, e.g.: - school fees - clothing and shoes - school books/supplies
-“opportunity costs” - child labour and work · Families cannot afford the loss of income or labour contribution of their children, so their children do not enrol or attend.
-traditional, cultural or religious beliefs - gender stereotypes - lack of knowledge on benefits of education - gender-differentiated child- rearing practices · Education not valued or is seen as irrelevant to or in conflict with accepted roles in society. ·
-Poor nutrition, HIV/AIDS Children not able to participate and/or learn. · Children caring for sick family members. Childheaded households
-Increase likehood of non-enrollment
- poor condition of building - overcrowding - lack of water or sanitation - violence (physical and psychological) · Increased likelihood of non-attendance and dropping out. Poor achievement. lack of/outdated curriculum - inadequate learning materials - biased or inappropriate content. - lack of assessment - outdated teaching technologies - poor school management - inflexible school calendar ( unable to reach fully potential
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Shabana Basij-Rasikh is an Afghan educator, humanitarian.. She is the founder of Hela, inc. and School of Leadership, Afghanistan, and has received worldwide recognition for her work.
She attended her senior year of high school in Wisconsin, United States as a part of an exchange program scholarship by the United States State Department] After graduation, she attended Middlebury College in Vermont, graduating in 2011.
hile Basij-Rasikh was still in college, she co-founded the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), which is "dedicated to giving young Afghans access to quality education abroad and jobs back home.".After graduation, Basij-Rasikh returned to Kabul, and turned SOLA into the first Afghan boarding school for girls.
investing in girls’ education is not only a matter that impacts our generation, but is also a crucial matter of importance for generations to come
