Girl’s education is one of the most effective
ways for ending poverty in developing
nations. The benefits of their education are
seen by individuals, their families, and
throughout the society.
The benefits include; birth spacing, reduced
child mortality rates, lower maternal
mortality rates, prevention against HIV/AIDS
infection and increase in the number of
working women both in public and private
sectors.
Education is one of the most critical areas of
empowerment for women and it is twice as
much for women as to men.
The biggest challenge in promoting girl-
child participation in education is how to
change the societal female perception in a
male dominated society.
The initiatives can only succeed if they are
driven from within (community level) with
external support by government and
members of local and international
organizations especially in terms of grinding
poverty and hunger.
In such harsh economic circumstances,
both direct and hidden costs to a family of
sending daughters to school are perceived
by parents to be prohibitive in terms of the
provision of books, uniforms as well as the
loss of vital help at home.
We can achieve giving girls education by
persuading the parents to educate their
children and empower various stakeholders
to create a system that will promote and
support girl-child education.
This can be done through increasing girls’
enrollment, reforming schools
administration, improving learning outcome
and showing the children importance of
education among others.
Written by Kassim Tijj
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