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
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.