There are 64 million girls in the world who have never received a single day of schooling. Without so much as a primary school education, each of these girls has a 50% greater chance of contracting HIV/AIDS. She will bear three more children than her counterparts with just six years in school. She is more likely to be violently abused by her spouse, and she has a 40% greater chance of dying in childbirth. Her children are at greater risk of dying before they turn five or suffering from malnutrition. Even her crops suffer. Her educated counterpart will produce 20% more food for her family. Most troubling is that uneducated mothers are significantly less likely to send their own children to school, perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
To get all girls into school costs money. Not much. About $10 billion extra a year, which is what the world spends on ice cream. But it is money many nations do not have. But as individuals, we can keep a girl in school somewhere in the world for as little as $15.
Can you think of a more proactive way to change the world?
Working with individuals, groups and schools, we enable middle and high school girls in America to create personalized, online campaigns to fund short-term projects that help girls in the developing world to get an education. Supplying them with the facts, media content and tools, the Keep A Girl In School program helps young American women leverage their emerging entrepreneurial and creative talents into philanthropy. Examples of funded projects might be building schools, buying uniforms, building girls’ bathrooms, or putting clean water walls near schools.
Funds raised is put to work through our partner humanitarian organizations, which have proven field programs that get, and keep, the poorest of the world’s girls in school.
Our goal is to empower a future generation of women leaders-on both sides of the globe.
