Images That Make You Stop.....And Think...

Globally, 77,600,000 girls do not attend school

There are 33,000,000 fewer girls than boys in primary education

Girls with secondary education are 6 times less likely to be married as children

A girl with 7 years of schooling in the developing world will have 2.2 fewer children

A chiild born to a literate mother is 50% more likely to survive past the age of 5

Two thirds of the 775,000,000 illiterate adults, and 63% of illiterate youth, are female

Literate mothers are twice as likely to immunize their children and send them to school

A girl who completes basic education is 3 times less likely to contract HIV

A girl earns 20% more as an adult for every additional year of education she receives

A nation’s GDP rises an average of 3% when 10% more its girls attend school

Less than 2% of international development funds are specifically allocated to girls

School is not free in over 50 countries