“I WANT TO BE MORE THAN JUST SOMEBODY’S WIFE”
- DIANA
WATCH DIANA’S STORY. LEARN MORE.
Diana is smart and loves learning. Her dream is to go to school and become a teacher one day. That won’t be easy.
In Diana’s village, many girls don’t even go to school. Even if girls can get to school, it can be hard for them to stay long enough to graduate and pursue a career. COVID-19 has forced millions of girls out of school – and too many will never go back.
With your help, She Could Be so much more. She could be what she wants to be.
$30
Will provide a girl with 3 healthy meals a day for 3 months, keeping her healthy and thriving.
$108
Will keep a girl in high school for one month, helping to break the cycle of poverty.
$252
Will provide 10 girls with appropriate sanitary products for a year, ensuring they remain at school and learning.
$412
Will pay a female teacher’s salary for 2 months, providing important mentors and influential community advocates for girls’ education.
When you give a girl an education, you won’t just change her life – you’ll change the world.
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Educated girls can lift themselves, their families and entire communities out of poverty.
Each additional year of schooling can raise a girl’s future earning power by up to 25%. She will typically reinvest 90 percent of this income into her family and is more likely to send her own children to school, thus helping to break down the intergenerational poverty trap. Educating girls is not just the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.
“Empowering women has been identified as one of the most sustainable ways to strengthen the economic and social fabric of developing nations.
I am pleased to see that in October 2020, School for Life will launch a Girls’ Fund to provide additional support and give girls the best opportunity to succeed.”
The Hon Julie Bishop
Chancellor, Australian National University
38th Minister for Foreign Affairs (2013 – 2018)
Current status of girls' education in uganda
4 in 5 girls
who start primary school do not complete high school
700,000 girls
aged 6-12 have never attended school
40% of girls
are married before the age of 18
1 in 4 girls
aged 15-19 have begun child bearing
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