Last week, I traveled to Jordan to meet with Syrian refugees. I knew I was about to hear gripping stories of families fleeing violence and destruction. I also knew that...
Girls' Education
Hungry To Learn
Children are naturally hungry to learn, but face daunting barriers to attending school, especially girls. CARE works to address the roots of those impediments as a way to increase learning opportunities.
CARE in the News
CARE talks with local news stations about the fate of over 200 kidnapped Nigerian girls.
Keep Girls in the Picture
Without school, a girl’s future fades away. Learn about barriers to girls’ education with our video yearbook and stories.
One person. One gift. One world without poverty.
See how one gift can change a girl’s life and the lives of those around her.
Eulalia's Journey to School
Every week, Eulalia, 9, travels from her remote mountaintop home to a village boarding school for children of alpaca shepherds.
Meet Senna
In a gritty mountain village in the Peru's Puno province, Senna, 14, attends a high school supported by CARE. She shares her story in Girl Rising, a film by 10x10.
Overcoming the Barriers
Hunger, lower social status, chores, early marriage, school safety and sanitation are all barriers preventing a girl from receiving a proper education.
CARE implements gender-synchronized approaches: projects may begin with identifying and addressing the unique barriers that keep girls out of school, while at the same time working with boys and men to help identify and address such barriers. Other projects may engage both girls and boys from inception, to build equitable environments through which all students can learn, thrive and grow.
STEAL THESE STATS
Share the facts about girls' education.
#StealTheseStats w/@CAREA child of a literate mother is 50% more likely to survive to age 5.
#StealTheseStats w/@CAREA woman’s earnings will be 10-20% higher for every year of school completed.
#StealTheseStats w/@CAREChildren with educated mothers are 2x as likely to go to school.
#StealTheseStats w/@CARESome 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty if all students in low-income countries acquired basic reading skills.
#StealTheseStats w/@CAREOver the past four decades, the global increase in women’s education has prevented more than 4 million child deaths.
#StealTheseStats w/@CARESome countries lose more than US$1 billion a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys.
#StealTheseStats w/@CAREGetting all children into basic education, while raising learning standards, could boost growth by 2% annually in low-income countries.
LS: Girls Edu Box 1 New
Read This!
Zahra was hungry to learn. Now she's becoming a doctor.
LS: Girls Edu Box 2 New
Read This!
Girl Most Likely To: Cultivate Lasting Change
LS: Girls Edu Box 3 New
Featured Blog
Dadaab Kenya: Porridge + Classroom = Girls' Education
LS: Girls Edu Box 4 New
Girls' Leadership Development in Action
CARE’s Experience from the Field
LS: Girls Edu Box 5 New
Read This!
The Real Story on the Life of Brender Mukamana
LS: Girls Edu Box 6 New
Read This!
Olima Wo Suka: The Sound of Progress
The Barrier of Child Marriage
Girls are entering into early marriages at an alarming rate. They are often married early to alleviate their family’s financial burden, far before they are ready for marriage physically and mentally. Learn more by watching the video below.
The Barrier of Workload
CARE’s research studies identified that girls can have six times higher domestic workloads than boys their same age. As a result, girls often miss class and/or arrive late to school, missing critical learning hours.
The Barrier of Poor Sanitation
Improved sanitation can keep a girl in school by making facilities available to her when she reaches puberty.
The Barrier of Gender
Because girls generally have a lower social status than their brothers, their education is valued less. When resources are scarce, and there are both real and opportunity costs associated with going to school, many families opt to educate their boys over their girls.
The Barrier of Language
Girls can often be discouraged from attending school because classes may be taught in a different language than families use at home. This video documents the opportunities opened up for one girl through CARE's programs in Cambodia.
The Barrier of Violence
Safety remains a critical barrier for girls to attend school. If the journey to school and the school environment are not safe, parents will not enroll their daughters, and girls will not attend.
The Barrier of Conflict
Education can be a life-saving resource that reestablishes a vulnerable child’s sense of normalcy and builds self-esteem and hope for the future. Many experts consider education an essential humanitarian response to complex emergencies, closely following food, water and shelter.
The Top 5 Things You Didn't Know About Child Marriage
Learn more about this staggering barrier to education.
Newsroom
When I arrived in Jordan to meet with Syrian refugees, I knew I would hear gripping stories of families fleeing violence that would also reveal how Syria’s civil war has...
by Razan, 20-year-old Syrian refugee girl living in Jordan: I remember this time last year well. I was in Syria, and I was happy. This might sound strange, I know.
Take Action
Every girl forced out of the classroom is a girl we have failed. Ask your members of Congress to support the Education for All Act today!
RESOURCES
CARE is a signatory to Girl Declaration and helped with its development.
Making a Difference: Empowering Girls, Expanding Knowledge, Addressing Poverty
Education Findings from the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative
Feb 2012 Girls Leadership Program Brief
Whether it’s basketball or soccer, boxing or swimming, sport builds character and promotes teamwork.
As we celebrate International Day of the Girl, we can’t help remind ourselves of our own childhood.
We believe that the greatest obstacle to girls’ education is the low social status in which girls are held.
The right to education is fundamental to the attainment and exercise of all human rights.
The world’s future will be largely shaped by today’s girls and tomorrow’s women.
