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WHAT
WE ARE FACING
Nearly a billion people cannot read or sign their names. Two thirds of
them are women. Educated women are less likely to be oppressed or exploited
and more likely to participate in political processes. They have smaller
families and healthier and better-educated children. Education improves
the lives of the most vulnerable, marginalized and deprived. Children
who attend school learn the knowledge, skills and values needed to sustain
peaceful societies.
DID YOU KNOW?
- 115 million school-aged children are not in school
- 133 million young people cannot read or write
- More boys than girls enroll in school
- More girls than boys drop out of school before the age of ten
LEARN MORE
Girls' Education - UNICEF
United Nations Girls'
Education Initiative - UNGEI
Voices of Youth - UNICEF
Education for All by 2015
Education - World Bank
GET INVOLVED
United States Fund for UNICEF
School in a Box - UNICEF
CAMFED
Girls Global Education Fund
Find out more at
NGOs advancing the MDGs
UN DPI Affiliated NGOs
UN Ecosoc Affiliated NGOs
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Betsy Johnson, Astoria,
is upset so many people lack access to safe
drinking water |
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Eric
Williams, Queens, wants the world to
do something about preventable diseases
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Larry
Kushner, Manhattan, is shocked about a
billion people
living
in poverty |
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Jeremy
Kressner, Bronx,
calls on leaders to protect human rights |
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