World Education

Celebrates International

Women’s Day 2010

Supporting Women Through Education

March 8, 2010 marks the 99th anniversary of International Women's Day, a time to increase awareness and take action on issues that confront women around the world every day.

This slideshow highlights some of World Education’s projects that improve women’s education around the globe.

World Education works with the

Batonga Foundation in Mali and Benin to

connect girls with volunteer mentors

who encourage their success in school and

teach them about important personal

health topics, including HIV.

Supporting Women as Role Models

Empowering Women in Nepal

In rural Nepal, women do not have access to

credit from banks.

With the Resunga Mahala Project World Education has helped

more than 17,000 women develop skills

that increase their self-sufficiency. Finance and

literacy training, and savings and credit

groups have helped women with limited

formal education gain independence.

World Education developed the Transitions to College and Careers project, a model for helping women with limited education enter and succeed in college programs that prepare them for high-growth jobs,

enabling them to earn family-sustaining wages.

Assisting Women from

College to Career in

New England

Improving Women’s Literacy in Egypt

Through the Egypt Education Reform Program, World Education teaches mothers

how to read which empowers them to become more involved in their children’s

education.

Keeping Girls in

School in West Africa

World Education

implements the Ambassadors

Girls Scholarship

Program (AGSP) in 12

countries, providing more

than 30,000 disadvantaged

girls with scholarships to cover the costs

of their education.

Prevention Education and Support in India

Through the South India Girl Child Initiative, World Education improves girls access to education, and decreases their

vulnerability to sexual exploitation and abuse to help them become healthy, successful women.

Providing Resources for Adult Learning in the U.S.

Through the New England Literacy Resource Center, World Education produces practical, state-of-the-art publications that

document promising practices for practitioners focused on bringing social justice issues to adult education.

Girls’ Education

in Nepal

The Girls Access To Education (GATE) Program integrates traditional school

curricula with basic life skills information such as reproductive and family health to apply to their

everyday lives.

Educating Displaced Women in Thailand

Through the SHIELD project, World Education

supports local women’s

organizations to provide adult

literacy classes for Burmese migrant and

refugee women. Photo by Tim Syrota

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