"Enabling girls to attend school is literally a matter of life and death. Education, especially for girls and women, is the best way to break the cycle of ill health, hunger and poverty..."- Kailash Satyarthi, Chairperson, Global Campaign for Education
UNGEI, the EFA flagship for girls' education, is a partnership that embraces the United Nations system, governments, donor countries, non-governmental organizations, civil society, the private sector, and communities and families. UNGEI provides stakeholders with a platform for action and galvanizes their efforts to get girls in school.
Sustainable development and the eradication of poverty will only be achieved with quality education for all - girls and boys alike. Since girls face much greater obstacles, special efforts are needed to get them in school and ensure that they complete their education.
If girls remain uneducated, they are likely to become women who are illiterate, impoverished and less likely to raise healthy and educated families. Society cannot afford to allow another generation to forego its potential. That's why the Millennium Development Goals, as well as the goals of Education for All (EFA), call for gender parity and equality in education.
- Guatemala: Bilingual schooling for indigenous children
- Southern Sudan: Suku's story: Girls' education is the key
- Solomon Islands: Youth employment: “We are not the problem, we are the solution”
- Bolivia: Child-friendly schools give hope to a young girl in El Alto
- Rwanda: School campaign supports girls’ education and achievement
- Brazil: Football helps girls in Brazil put exploitation behind them
