By Emilia Miki | Founder/CEO
Why educate women and girls? Societies prosper when women and girls are educated. Educated women are healthier and earn higher incomes that can lift their households out of poverty. And the benefits are transferred to their children, who are better educated and have better health care. Communities and countries benefit from a more educated workforce, and increasing women’s participation in the formal economy through education leads to greater economic growth.
Not only is educating women and girls essential to achieve higher levels of economic growth and development, it is also the right thing to do for humanity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child both establish girls’ education as a human right.
Through our Her Voice My Voice Fund, we have trained 30 Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) during a 3 Days Bootcamp in the city of Limbe, Cameroon and continue to provide mentorship and coaching for the active engagement of these girls and their peers in key development activities and processes.
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