We're raising funds to enable girls and young women in Kenya, Lesotho & Uganda to continue with their education, greatly enhancing their future life opportunities. Faced with difficult choices, families often send boys rather than girls off to school – yet the impact of educating girls is huge.
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Over 49 million girls are out of primary and secondary school in sub-Saharan Africa. There are many reasons for this, most linked to poverty: many families prioritise boys’ education or rely on girls for domestic labour, girls are forced into early marriages so the family can get a dowry, girls’ schooling is disproportionately disrupted by climate change and conflict crises and girls often drop out of school when they hit puberty and can’t access menstrual products or good sanitation facilities.
Reaching our target will enable us to fund the whole secondary education of 20 girls in Uganda or vocational training courses for 15 women in Kenya. By providing these women and girls with an education we will be helping them to find work or start businesses, breaking the cycle of poverty. Girls with secondary education tend to marry later, are likely to have an average of 2.2 fewer children, are more likely to have healthier children who they will send to school (UNICEF, 2014).
