The Girl Effect
Posted on November 14, 2008 by Leah Hazard
Every girl in the world needs an education.
I could present you with stat after stat explaining why that's important — how a girl who attends school for at least seven years marries later and has fewer children, or how an extra year of primary school increases eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent, and how with an extra year of secondary school it's more like 15 to 25 percent.
But if this powerful video from the Nike and NoVo Foundations doesn't convince you, you need to have your head examined.
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It's true and sad the reality from today. Many parents find in their girls a way to survive. They sold them for money or for food. But it's not only this stuff with parents. Also become a problem the relationships between a boy and a girl. Many youngsters don't know what's love or education and so they start to violate girls and after they sold or kill them. Think for a few moments that you are a mother who loves her daughter. And suddenly you hear that her is dead or violated. How do you feel? Terrible probably. That's it's happening because many parents don't know or the can't educate their children.
educated women........an educated society.
as a woman primarily and as a mother...,i feel that a woman...i.e.,a girl is the lifeline of any society ,even though many of us dont realise it or are still arguing the fact! its not a man or woman or a girl or a boy issue. it runs more deeper than that and until unless the rest of the society doesn't have the wisdom to unveil the deeper understanding of the core issue.....its going to be a long while........till we finally get it and i hope time doesn't run out! as it is the female ratio as compared to the men is on the decline.
i strongly feel that education for a girl child should be mandatory. it is not only going to work positively for her but would be in the larger interest of the society too.i firmly believe that an educated girl/woman will realise her potential not only by rising economically but also contribute towards society as a mother who inculcates the right values in her children ,who as adults will take better decisions and contribute in making the world a better place.
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