Why is girls' education important?

Why Girls’ Education? The inter-linkages between gender inequalities, economic growth and poverty are the main reasons why girls’ education is a smart investment For developing countries to reap these benefits fully, they need to unleash the potential of the human mind. Educating all their people, not just half of them, makes the most sense for future economic growth.

Systematic exclusion of women from

How are girls doing?: Success and Challenges

Compared with two decades ago, more young people are entering school, completing the primary level, and pursuing secondary and tertiary education. In low-income countries alone, average enrollment rates in primary education have surged upwards of 80 percent, and

Out of School Children

• In 1999, around 106 million children were out of primary school. Almost 61 million (58%) were girls compared to 45 million (42%) boys.
• In 2009, around 35 million girls were still out of school compared to 31 million boys.
• Although the gap in gender parity has decreased substantially, there are still many more girls out of primary school than boys.

Girls Out of School in Africa and S. Asia

• Almost ½ of the world’s out of school girls are in SSA. Around ¼ are in South Asia.
• In South Asia, the region’s total number of out-of-school girls dropped from 23 million girls to 9.5 million since

really tough for coming 7 billions

Provide Emergency Obstetric Care

Most maternal deaths are avoidable yet every day 1000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. The knock-on effect is huge. For example, infants whose mothers die are more likely to die than infants whose mothers survive.

When something goes badly wrong, women need emergency obstetric care in proper health facilities. All five of the major causes of maternal deaths – excessive bleeding, sepsis, unsafe abortion, hypertensive disorders and obstructed labour – can be treated there. Trained staff who can administer blood transfusions can be life-savers: excessive bleeding after birth can kill a woman in less than two hours. (Source: Reuters)

problems for coming 7 billions

End Sexual Violence

A volunteer teaches children about sexual violence in Cape Town, South Africa. Sexual violence against women, both within and outside marriage, leads to unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, sexually-transmitted infections and other gynecological and psychological problems that place a wholly unnecessary burden on health services.

Cultural and social norms that place women in permanently subservient roles are a factor although experts find that the most important thing is the way children, especially boys, are brought up and socialized. From a young age they must be taught that violence against women is intolerable. (Source: Reuters)

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End Child Marriage

Fourteen-year-old child bride Lalita Saini in Jaipur, India. Forced early marriage of young girls can cause lifelong problems, especially due to early childbearing. Teenage mothers are more likely to die in childbirth. They often find it difficult to access contraception or other reproductive health services and so unsafe abortions are a major danger.

Early childbearing is linked to obstetric fistula, while adolescent mothers have children with low birth weight, inadequate nutrition and anemia. And they are more likely to develop cervical cancer later in life. In some countries marriage to older men makes girls more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because the older the man the more sexual partners he will have had and the less likely he will have practiced safe sex. (Source: Reuters)

can we feed 7 billions

 

Population 7 Billion only...???

There will soon be seven billion people on the planet. By 2045 global population is projected to reach nine billion. Can the planet take the strain?

malnutrition

There were 925 million malnourished people in the world in 2010, an increase of 80 million since 1990,

according to FAO(2003 statistcs)....

Country	Number of Undernourished (million)
India	217.05
China	154.0
Bangladesh	43.45
Democratic Republic of Congo	37.0
Pakistan	35.2
Ethiopia	31.5
Tanzania	16.1
Philippines	15.2
Brazil	14.4
Indonesia	13.8
Vietnam	13.8
Thailand	13.4
Nigeria	11.5
Kenya	9.7
Sudan	8.8
Mozambique	8.3
North Korea	7.9
Yemen	7.1
Madagascar	7.1
Colombia	5.9
Zimbabwe	5.7
Mexico	5.1
Zambia	5.1
Angola	5.0