I was invited to be a member of a panel addressing the topic ‘Girls Education – An End to Poverty’ on Thursday April 1st, 2010 A copy of my presentation is attached here Presentation at DPI Briefing on April I, 2010 You can view the Powerpoint without script Girls Education – An End to poverty[1] You can read more and see some photographs on www.girlsrights.org “Investing in girls’ education delivers well-known returns. When girls are educated, they are more likely to earn higher wages and obtain better jobs, to have fewer and healthier children and to enjoy safer childbirth.” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – World Population Day, 11 July 2009. The Working Group on Girls partnered with the UN Department of Public Information to produce the April 1, 2010 NGO Briefing entitled, “Girls’ Education” An End to Poverty?” The Panel Moderator was: María-Luisa Chávez; Chief, NGO Relations, Department of Public Information (DPI). Speakers included
H.E. Jean-Francis Régis Zinsou, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of the Republic of Benin to the United Nations
Elizabeth Fordham, Education Programme Specialist, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in New York
Tamara Rosenberg, co-producer of Time for School 3, Public Broadcasting Service/Thirteen
Winifred Doherty, Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd representative to the United Nations in New York and member of the Working Group on Girls
According to an important study on the subject by the Center for Global Development, entitled Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda: “without adequate skills and training, and without access to economic self-sufficiency, many girls in developing countries enter into child marriages. One in seven girls in developing countries marry by age 15, and in 15 countries throughout South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, almost half of all girls are married before age 18.” There is also a very strong link between lack of education, gender inequality and poverty. In the light of these facts and your experiences what are you doing for girls? If you would like to share a short account of your activities please do so by clicking on leave a comment.
Congratulation for the succesful presentation on Girls Education- an End to poverty. I had been waiting to hear about your presentation. I got some of your photo from the facebook of wgg too.
Thanks Winifred and blessings to your good work.
everyone raise issue and donor from around the invest huge amount in girl education and women empowerment. but the result can be seen in the paper only. we need do work with target people and believe in ground progress not in paper progress like most of the ngos preparing fake report of progress. i am working in the educational sector and contribute in this area. i have plan for this. but i want be clear that i do not believe in paper work. i am result oriented. if the person and organization interested work together can contact me.
just have an opportunity to read this. it is just touch the real situation in our area in Marau. we have given attention, time and effort to young girls around us. inside or outside the boarding members, through the school and in our awareness program in outstation chapels/ other parishes. one day in our sharing we talk of many girls (around 14th years old) drop out from school and married. 10 from 90 students in the primary high school in one semester. we look for a new way of approaching them.