{"id":72106,"date":"2016-07-07T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c04683ceb0b9bcd0f4a65f5729940148"},"modified":"2016-07-07T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:01:00","slug":"press-release-britain-to-help-175000-girls-in-worlds-poorest-countries-get-an-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72106","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Britain to help 175,000 girls in world\u2019s poorest countries get an education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The UK government will help 175,000 of the poorest, most marginalised girls in the world to get a quality education, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced today, Thursday 7 July.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for International Development (DFID) will provide \u00a3100 million through the Girls\u2019 Education Challenge to help girls who have dropped out or never attended school due to family crises, poverty, child marriage or early pregnancy. The funding will also be used to continue the Girls\u2019 Education Challenge\u2019s support for 1 million disadvantaged girls across the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>Greening made the announcement at the first Girls\u2019 Education Forum. The Forum, hosted by DFID, Global Citizen + CHIME FOR CHANGE in London today, brought together governments, businesses and aid agencies to drive the implementation of Global Goal 4 to achieve universal, quality education.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees also included over 150 young volunteers who have taken part in DFID\u2019s International Citizen Service programme, which is managed by Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"international-development-secretary-justine-greening-said\">International Development Secretary Justine Greening said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Education doesn\u2019t just shape individuals, it shapes countries \u2013 but right now too many young girls are deprived of an education simply because of their gender. Today\u2019s event is about putting a spotlight on that, and focusing on what education can do to unlock prospects for girls around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK is leading the fight for gender equality and has already helped 5.3 million girls in developing countries receive a quality education. I am proud that the UK will now be helping a further 175,000 of the most vulnerable and marginalised girls in the world to get the education they need to have choice and control over their futures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"board-chair-of-the-global-partnership-for-education-julia-gillard-said\">Board Chair of the Global Partnership for Education Julia Gillard said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Investing in girls and women isn\u2019t just morally right: it is essential for the development of families, communities and countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">When we educate girls, we see reduced child deaths, healthier children and mothers, fewer child marriages and faster economic growth. I congratulate Secretary of State Justine Greening on today\u2019s announcement and her pivotal leadership on girls\u2019 education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"global-citizens-europe-director-amy-agnew-said\">Global Citizen\u2019s Europe Director Amy Agnew said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today the UK has taken an important step to ensure that all girls are able to go to school and learn. Tens of thousands of Global Citizens have taken action to support this financial commitment, but there is still so much more to be done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Globally, funding for education has been woefully neglected and still, millions of girls remain out of school. Global Citizen supports Britain\u2019s long standing commitment to the poorest people in the world and we call on all world leaders to step up and prioritise investment in the future of girls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"bonavitha-gahaihi-a-26-year-old-vso-international-citizen-service-worker-from-tanzania-said\">Bonavitha Gahaihi, a 26 year old VSO International Citizen Service worker from Tanzania said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">When a girl is denied access to education, it impacts her whole life and her family. When a girl gets an education, her family becomes educated. Through my work with ICS I now help communities understand the importance of educating girls and help them claim their self-esteem, dignity and rights.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to the UK\u2019s commitment, the Girls\u2019 Education Forum also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/536300\/Commitments_in_support_of_the_GEF_Statement_of_Action.pdf\">secured commitments from governments, business and aid agencies<\/a> to help girls around the world get an education. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The USA is launching a new $25 million partnership with DFID to initiate a female teacher apprenticeship programme in Afghanistan. Through this programme, adolescent girls will learn the skills needed to forge careers as teachers, enabling them to fill the teacher gap that prevents many girls from attending school.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Afghanistan commits to take all necessary actions, within the resources available, to accelerate gender equality and education outcomes for marginalised girls. Additionally, Afghanistan commits to increase focus on girls\u2019 education in remote locations, and share its successful experiences with other countries.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Camfed commits to support 1 million marginalised girls through secondary school and into independence and secure livelihoods by 2020.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Cambridge University\u2019s REAL centre commits to a new partnership with Camfed to analyse the costs of sending a marginalised girl through secondary school and improving her learning.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Plan UK commits to direct \u00a330 million of its own funding and further funds it raises towards programming and advocacy on girls\u2019 education by 2020.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Statement of Action. Graphic: DFID\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/54159\/GEF-action-plan-graphic-govuk.png\"><\/div><figcaption>Statement of Action. Graphic: DFID<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over 15 organisations including DFID, USAID, World Bank, UNICEF, Plan and Pearson also signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/girls-education-forum-statement-of-action\">Statement of Action at the Forum<\/a>. This focuses on what the Global Goals mean for girls\u2019 education, and the specific actions needed to improve education outcomes for marginalised girls.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the challenge is enormous: 63 million girls around the world are out of school, with over half of these in sub-Saharan Africa. Those lucky enough to be enrolled have the odds stacked against them finishing their education. Because of this they not only face a lifetime of lower wages and fewer opportunities. Research shows that they are also more likely to marry young and to have children earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s commitment to help 175,000 of the most marginalised girls builds on DFID\u2019s work getting 11 million children into school between 2011 and 2015. In September last year Justine Greening pledged that the UK will help a further 6.5 million girls get an education between 2015 and 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_5\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:pressoffice@dfid.gov.uk\">pressoffice@dfid.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7023 0600\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">Follow the DFID Press office on Twitter &#8211; @DFID_Press<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Development Secretary Justine Greening announces funding at the Girls&#8217; Education Forum 2016 held in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72132,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72106\/revisions\/72132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}