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Education yields special benefits for women

  • Young women's earnings increase 10-20% for every year of school completed.
  • Girls' education is the best path to achieving smaller, healthier families.
  • An extra year of a woman's education has been shown to reduce infant mortality by 5-10%.
  • Children born to literate mothers are twice as likely to make it to their 5th birthday.
  • Children with educated mothers are twice as likely to go to school and are less malnourished.
  • Education is a powerful weapon against AIDS. Seven million cases of HIV could be prevented in the next decade if every child received an education.
    

"When you educate a woman, you strike at the root of poverty," says Sarah Michelle Gellar. The actress and CARE Ambassador recently visited education projects with CARE in Guatemala.