The Huffington Post – Tina Tchen
“Educating girls is essential to healthy and thriving communities. As you may have heard, girls who are educated marry later, they have fewer kids and lower HIV and infant mortality rates. They are more likely to immunize their own children. Educating girls also impacts their entire countries’ economies. Studies show that each additional year a girl attends school can increase her earning power by 10 to 20 percent. And when more girls attend school, entire countries’ per capita incomes increase. Sending girls to school can even impact our national security, because education is one of the best weapons we have against violent extremism.”(more)