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WHY INVEST IN GIRLS?
There is clear and convincing evidence, amassed over the past two decades, that
investing in girl-specific resources in the areas of education, health services,
reproductive health, and financial literacy leads to better educated, safer, healthier,
and economically powerful adolescent girls. This can contribute to a substantially
better future not just for the individual girls, but also for their families, communities,
and country. Every year of schooling increases a girls individual earning power by 10
to 20%, while the return on secondary education is even higher, in the 15 to 25%
range.
Girls education is proven to increase not only wage earners but also productivity for
employers, yielding benefits for the community and society. Women who have control
of their own income tend to have fewer children and fertility rates have shown to be
inversely related to national income growth. Girls and young women delaying marriage
and having fewer children means a bigger change of increasing per capita income,
higher savings, and more rapid growth.
When women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90% of it into their families. The
impact of investing in girls is intergenerational. A mother with a few years of formal
education is considerably more likely to send her children to school, breaking the
intergenerational chain of poverty. In many countries each additional year of formal
education completed by a mother translates into her children remaining in school for
up to an additional one-half year. The choices and opportunities available to
adolescent girls will determine in many respects the future of Sierra Leone: whether
the cycle of poverty is broken in service of prosperity and security.
Source: United Nations Foundation, 2012"

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