THE WORLD IS A MESS. Agree or Disagree? What if you could change that by giving one girl one chance? With hundreds of millions of girls living in poverty around the globe, the cycle of life in poverty is perpetual. With The Girl Effect, we have the power to throw a wrench in the cycle and re-direct its entire movement. The concept is “the powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate,” according to girleffect.org–the movement’s web site. Some of the statistics included on the web site are staggering:

-An extra year of primary school raises a girl’s lifetime wages by 10-20%; an extra year of secondary school raises wages by 15-25%.

-For every developmental dollar, girls receive less than 2 cents of that dollar.

-Studies have shown that girls will invest almost all of their income back into their family, while boys will reinvest less than half.

The stats speak for themselves on the importance of providing girls and young women with tools to improve their lives, as they have an incredible power to spread the effect and multiply the effect exponentially. For more information on The Girl Effect, visit their web site and watch the cool video!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 4:05 pm and is filed under Multidisciplinary Issues.