Why Education

Education ends poverty cycles. It improves lives. It creates awareness about disease. It also provides a foundation for sustainable development.

Currently, 771 million adults worldwide are illiterate. 64 per cent are women. (Source: OXFAM UK)
Nearly 93 million children are out of school. 53 per cent are girls. (Source: UNICEF)
In India alone, around 42 million children aged 6-10 are not attending school. For those who do start school, 1/3 will leave before they finish primary school, primarily due to poor quality of services (Source: UNICEF)
Girls are twice as likely to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases as boys, while almost twice as many women suffer from malnutrition as men. (Source: OXFAM)
Each year more than 500,000 women, at least 1 every minute, die from pregnancy- related causes. (Source: CARE AUST)
Young people who have completed a primary education are less than half as likely to contract HIV as those missing an education. Universal primary education would prevent 700,000 cases of HIV each year.
About 30% of all new infections occur in this age group. (Source: OXFAM)

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