On International Women’s Day, (my client) Global Partnership for Education recognizes in this post (with contributions by Weintraub Communications) 15 women who have helped promote girls’ education.
Two of those women, activist and philanthropist Graça Machel, and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg wrote in 2014: “In childhood and adolescence, too many girls are undernourished, stunted, denied education and forced into early marriages. This creates a gender disparity that threatens to undermine stability in future generations and must be addressed by policymakers.”
Another, West African singer, songwriter and UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo, (at left in photo) told Al-Jazeera: “The problem we are having today is that girls in some countries, in some traditions, are still seen as [a] commodity. Therefore, they can be kidnapped. They can be married. The only thing that I know as an African person that can transform my continent is girls’ education.”
And Ann Cotton, the founder of the Campaign for Female Education, or Camfed, said last year of girls’ education that “there is a feeling, a zeitgeist, a global awareness around this issue, and we have to take advantage of it.”
[Photo above from: https://twitter.com/BatongaTweets/status/256062348073238528/photo/1]
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