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Importance of Girls Education and Its Impact on Development 
by Azra Kacapor, World Learning May 2009
 
Facts and Figures on Girls Education
62 million girls are out of school ( over 60%)
There are 781 million illiterate adults, two-thirds of them women, world wide
Children whose mothers have no education are more than twice as likely to be out ofschool as children whose mothers have some education.
In developing countries, 75% of the children not in school have uneducated mothers
Source: United Nations Girls Education Initiative
 
 
Challenges to Girls Education
 
Cultural barriers to girls’ education
Poverty
Early marriage
Girls become primarycaregivers at an early age
Issues of access to schools
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