EDUCATE GIRLS, DEVELOP THE WORLD
Did you know that a girl with a primary school education marries later and has fewer, healthier children? And....
==> When women and girls earn incomes, they reinvest 90% into their families.
==> Women account for nearly two-thirds of the 785 million illiterate adults in the world.
==> Providing a girl with one extra year of education boosts her eventual wages by 10 to 20%.
==> Increasing the number of girls with secondary education by 1% boosts a country's annual per capita income growth by .3% -- substantial in countries like Niger with an annual growth around 3%. (World Bank)
RAIN has brought mentoring programs to 13 rural schools across Niger. In Arlit, our dedicated mentors support the program through goat herding. In Mari, school enrollment rose from 63 to 223. In Gougaram, Akokan and Mari the first girls ever have graduated primary school and continued to secondary education. Mentored girls have shown to be 20% more likely to return to school each year and to delay marriage and childbirth.
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