RESULTS partners all over the country are turning their hearts and to-do lists toward Education For All Global Action Week April 19-25. Education must be at the very heart of any effort to end poverty and war, not just one of many elements. Why?
- A child born to an uneducated mother is twice as likely to die before age 5 than if the mother had an education. (RESULTS.org)
- According to Save the Children, across society, every year of schooling decreases a male’s chance of engaging in violent conflict by 20 percent. (RESULTS.org)
- Improving the health of adolescent girls in the developing world is the key to improving maternal and child health, reducing the impact of HIV, and accelerating social and economic development. (Start With A Girl: A New Agenda For Global Health)
One Southern California RESULTS partner has a family member serving in the US military in Afghanistan. His unit has been coordinating the troops’ distribution of school supplies and toys to Afghan children in the Kabul area (the supplies are donated by private citizens here in the U.S.) He sent these photos he took at an Afghan school for girls that has enrollment of 2500 children (they teach 3 shifts of children per day to accommodate that number of kids).
The demand for education is overwhelming.
Today, 75 million children, more than half of them girls, are out of primary school.
776 million adults are illiterate.
226 million adolescents will never attend secondary school.
If we rely on private donations, we will be waiting a long time to see this gap filled. We need to tell our national leaders that this is the way to real change.
Watch for more information from RESULTS for ways you can help promote this important campaign move forward, or TAKE ACTION NOW by helping to start the conversation in your local media!
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