Why should we pay attention to girls?
Because when we invest in a girl’s health or education she can start a positive ripple effect. What does ripple mean? The picture below shows a ripple effect.
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1. if a liquid ripples, or if something ripples it, it moves gently in small waves 2. if a feeling or sound ripples through someone or through a group of people, it spreads gradually |
Watch the video below and see if you can figure out what ripple effect a girl can start.
The non-profitable organization called girleffect.org shows why to invest in girls.
girleffect.org points some reasons for why girls have the potential of causing a positive ripple effect on their families and communities.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT
- When a girl in the developing world receives seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children.
- An extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent. An extra year of secondary school: 15 to 25 percent.
- When women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90 percent of it into their families, as compared to only 30 to 40 percent for a man.
- More than 600 million girls live in the developing world.
- More than one-quarter of the population in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa are girls and young women ages 10 to 24.
- The total global population of girls ages 10 to 24 — already the largest in history — is expected to peak in the next decade.
- Approximately one-quarter of girls in developing countries are not in school.
- Out of the world’s 130 million out-of-school youth, 70 percent are girls.
source: www.girleffect.org
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by Vivian Barone