Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Sustainable Business and Educating Girls |

What is Girl Rising? 14 million girls under 18 will be married this year. That’s 38 thousand girls today. With just 8 years of education a girl is 4 times less likely to be married as a child.
Which means … she will be allowed to wait to have children until she herself is an adult.
Which means … an educated female is 50% more likely to send her children to school.
Which means … her daughters will be educated.
Read more at: Girl Rising

Educated girls and women not only provide a business with a wider future customer base, but also add to the depth and quality of the workforce. {The Guardian/Partner Zone Unicef}

Educating girls is key to sustainable economic development | Sustainability, therefore, can no longer remain a complementary adjunct to our discourse on development. It must replace it.