A. Lawrence Chickering on Transforming the Muslim World One Girl at a Time
“Since September 11, many people have come to believe that increasing the role of women is the most-powerful antidote to terrorism and political extremism. The most-effective, least-controversial strategy to accomplish that is to educate girls.”

Greg Mortenson’s Crusade to Educate Girls
“educating girls… accomplishes three things — reduces population explosion; reduces infant mortality; and significantly improves basic health and quality of life in a region where one of three babies born alive doesn’t reach its first birthday, and where the literacy rate is about three per cent.”

Nicholas Kristof on Educating Girls to Advance Women
“…girls’ education may be the single most cost-effective kind of aid work. It’s cheap, it opens minds, it gives girls new career opportunities and ways to generate cash, it leads them to have fewer children and invest more in those children, and it tends to bring women from the shadows into the formal economy and society… educating girls probably has a greater transformative effect on a country than anything else one can do.”

Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda
“The condition of girls ripples out to their families, communities, and countries, and echoes into future generations in particular and profound ways. Compelling data show that key future social and economic outcomes depend heavily on the condition of adolescent girls today…”

UNICEF on Girls’ Education and Poverty Eradication
“…education for girls is the key to the health and nutrition of populations; to overall improvements in the standard of living; to better agricultural and environmental practices; to higher Gross National Product; and to greater involvement and gender balance in decision-making at all levels of society.”

World Bank on Girls’ Education
“Educating girls yields a higher rate of return than any other investment in the developing world.”

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