Girl Education

When girls are allowed to go to school, they have a significant impact on their family and community. According to Camfed, when you educate a girl she will earn up to 25 percent more and reinvest 90 percent of her income in her family.

This re-investment in her family means her children will be more likely to go to school and be immunized, leading to healthier, more productive individuals and communities. The spreading of prosperity and influence is called the Ripple Effect. A girl’s education is about more than just the individual; it is about the future of her family and her community.

Education is important for everyone, but it is especially significant for girls. This is true not only because education is an entry point to other opportunities, but also because the educational achievements of girls can have ripple effects within the family and across generations. Investing in girls’ education is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty. Investments in secondary school education for girls yield especially high dividends.

Girls who have been educated are likely to marry later and to have smaller and healthier families. Educated women can recognize the importance of health care and know how to seek it for themselves and their children. Education helps girls to know their rights and to gain confidence to claim them. However, girl literacy rates are significantly lower than boy in most developing countries.

It is sad that some communities still discriminate against the education of the girl child. About 57 million children around the world are not going to school. The report, “Children still battling to go to School”, finds that 95% of the 28.5 million children not getting a primary school education live in low and lower-middle income countries.

We can have the key reasons why girls should get in education as:

1) Future Educated Generations
2) Decrease Infant Mortality
3) Decrease Maternal Mortality
4) Decrease Child Marriage
6) Increase Involvement in Political Process
7) Decrease Domestic & Sexual Violence
8) Decrease Support for Militancy
9) Improve Socioeconomic Growth

In stead of the activities of discrimination; Let’s join hands together and allow all girls, who are out of school to enroll in education and help them to reach in school.

The girls in these photographs are students of a school located in rural VDC of Parsa district, Ramnagarie.