The benefits of providing
African girls with an education are clear. Educated girls help break the cycle
of poverty. Girls who go to school are more likely to enter the work force,
earn higher incomes, delay marriage, plan their families, and seek an education
for their own children.
When
girls in developing African nations receive an education and earn income, they
put 90 percent of their earnings into their families, compared only to 40
percent for men. When a girl in the developing world goes to school for seven
or more years, she marries four years later than she otherwise would and has
two or more fewer children. The children she does have are more likely to be
healthy and survive past the age of five.
Unique Foundation is committed
to improving quality education in the Gambia for girls. We provide immediate,
concrete, educational support and know what it takes to help girls go to school
and stay in school.
