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Girls' Education

Discrimination, early marriage, trafficking and child labour are just some of the reasons keeping over 122 million girls globally out of school. Yet education is the single-most effective tool to break the cycle of poverty and each additional year of schooling helps a woman increase her earnings by 20%. When a mother can read, her children are 50% more likely to live past the age of five, twice as likely to attend school and 50% more likely to be immunised. That’s why we’re working with local partners on global projects which help girls go to school.

Key projects

Economic empowerment through Mamapreneurs

Our partners, Kidogo, identify, train and support female entrepreneurs (Mamapreneurs) to start or grow their own childcare micro-businesses in their local communities. Mamapreneurs receive intensive training and mentoring on early childhood care and education, entrepreneurship, and health and nutrition to improve the quality of services offered to young children. As a result, over 400 Mamapreneurs and 2,000 girls have been supported through the Mamapreneurs project, which has now closed. But we have extended this partnership until July 2026 to support Kidogo standardise their learning content used in Early Childhood Development centres.

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Menstrual health and sexual and reproductive rights education

Working with ZanaAfrica Foundation we have reached over 10,000 girls in Kenya with menstrual kits and sexual and reproductive health education.

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Digital literacy skills

Our Skills for Their Future project is equipping 1,800 young girls and 45 teachers with digital literacy skills, in Dar Es-Salaam in Tanzania. The skills curriculum was developed by Theirworld and its partners and is tailored to the needs of female students in low resource schools.

Vocational training to teenage mothers

Girls in STEM are providing vocational training in tailoring, garment cutting, sewing, and hair and salon services to 250–500 teenage mothers aged 13–17 in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda.

Developing IT skills for girls with disabilities

Strengthening IT and digital skills to 250 girls with disabilities through The Digital Education project, in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Support every girl's right to learn

Right now, the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan means over two million girls are out of school. And it’s putting a generation’s entire future at risk. Add your name to show your support for the rights of the millions of girls out of school in Afghanistan today.

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