Educate girls and fight poverty in Senegal

Women's Global Education Project believes that educating girls in developing nations is one of the most effective and sustainable ways to fight global poverty.

Even in a classroom full of boys with more resources, more years of formal schooling and less chores at home, WGEP scholar Christine Diouf regularly ranks at the top of her class.

Girls are still in the minority in a typical class in Senegal. After a community participates in our community outreach programs, Women's Global has found a marked increase in the number of resident girls enrolled in school!

Girls who receive an education increase their earning potential, show better health results throughout their lives, are better equipped to prevent serious illness like HIV/AIDS and malaria, are better able to protect themselves against violence, abuse and trafficking, are less likely to marry as teenagers and start a family too early, are less likely to die in childbirth, have fewer and healthier children, are more active in their communities, and are more likely to educate their own children.