Related to this topic: This Friday evening on PBS (Channel 9), in the Bill Moyers' Journal (9pm-10pm), the guest will be Greg Mortenson - founder of Central Asia Institute, an organization that for the past decade or so has been building schools for girls (mostly) in underserved regions of rural Afghanistan and Pakistan. Valentin On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa@gmail.com> wrote:
Little research has been done to understand how investments in girls impact economic growth and the health and well-being of communities. This lack of data reveals how pervasively girls have been overlooked. For millions of girls across the developing world, there are no systems to record their birth, their citizenship, or even their identity.
However, the existing research summarized in this fact sheet (http://www.girleffect.org/downloads/TheGirlEffect_FactSheet.pdf) or this stunning video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvmE4_KMNw) suggests their impact can reach much farther than expected. Find out more about The Girl Effect at http://thegirleffect.org. _______________________________________________ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change