International Women's Day

March 8, 2011

Girls Matter
Educate a Girl, You Educate a Nation

Focusing on children and youth is one of the best ways to achieve long-term development and poverty reduction. Paying special attention to educating young women and girls brings great social and economic returns to their societies and is one of the best ways to acheive long-term development and poverty reduction. Yet, despite the multiple benefits of educating girls, when families are facing extreme poverty, the first thing struggling families do is to take their girls out of school.
Educated girls and women are more likely to marry later, have fewer children, and ensure their own children, both boys and girls, go to school.They are also less likely to be exploited.
CIDA's second path under its Children and Youth Strategy will be to provide access to quality basic education and learning opportunities, with a particular focus on girls. CODE believes that one of the best investments a country can make is to educate girls and train young women to be teachers and librarians, writers and illustrators. By working with local partners in the field, CODE's literacy programs aim to achieve concrete results that make a significant, sustainable difference in the lives of young girls, the families they will raise, and the communities they will build.

CODE - read. learn. live.
http://www.codecan.org

To learn more about the International Women's Day, visit following links:

Status of Women Canada: http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/iwd-jif/index-eng.html
International Women's Day 2011: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
Education Internationl: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/show.php?id=1544&theme=gender&country=global