Around the world, more than 130 million girls are not enrolled in schools. When girls reach adolescence, they are at a higher risk of dropping out due to forced marriage, pregnancy or family pressure.
In fact, in countries affected by conflict, girls ages 10 to 19 are three times more likely than boys to be kept out of school.
The Keeping Girls in School Act would help to change these statistics by empowering girls all over the world through increasing educational opportunities and economic security.
The act requires the Department of State and USAID to amend the current U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls and continually update it every five years. Additionally, it will help to monitor programs to close the gender gap in secondary education.
The collective economic benefits of girls’ education will help to lift households, communities and nations out of poverty, which is key to advancing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
If every girl received 12 years of free, safe, quality education, lifetime earnings for women could increase by $15-30 trillion globally.
It is important to support this act as the U.S. has been a global leader in efforts to expand and improve educational opportunities, particularly for girls. By showing support for this act, the U.S. would continue this effort and help to empower girls across the globe and protect U.S. national security interests.
You can help support this act, along with millions of girls by visiting The Borgen Project homepage and emailing or calling your representatives.
The Borgen Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting poverty and hunger. The organization calls on the world’s most powerful nations to combat poverty and hunger worldwide. Through national campaigns, the Borgen Project strives to put effort to fight poverty and hunger at the center of America’s foreign policy.
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Around the world, more than 130 million girls are not enrolled in schools. When girls reach adolescence, they are at a higher risk of dropping out due to forced marriage, pregnancy or family pressure.
In fact, in countries affected by conflict, girls ages 10 to 19 are three times more likely than boys to be kept out of school.
The Keeping Girls in School Act would help to change these statistics by empowering girls all over the world through increasing educational opportunities and economic security.
The act requires the Department of State and USAID to amend the current U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls and continually update it every five years. Additionally, it will help to monitor programs to close the gender gap in secondary education.
The collective economic benefits of girls’ education will help to lift households, communities and nations out of poverty, which is key to advancing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
If every girl received 12 years of free, safe, quality education, lifetime earnings for women could increase by $15-30 trillion globally.
It is important to support this act as the U.S. has been a global leader in efforts to expand and improve educational opportunities, particularly for girls. By showing support for this act, the U.S. would continue this effort and help to empower girls across the globe and protect U.S. national security interests.
You can help support this act, along with millions of girls by visiting The Borgen Project homepage and emailing or calling your representatives.
The Borgen Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting poverty and hunger. The organization calls on the world’s most powerful nations to combat poverty and hunger worldwide. Through national campaigns, the Borgen Project strives to put effort to fight poverty and hunger at the center of America’s foreign policy.