Learning out of Poverty

Education is foundational to human development and has a clear multiplier effect with benefits in health, broad-based economic growth and poverty reduction.

• A child born to an educated mother is more than 2 times as likely to survive to age five.
• Educated mothers are 50% more likely to immunize their children than mothers without an education.
• Every extra year of school increases productivity by 10-30%
• Individual earnings increase by 10% for each year of school complicated.
• A girl who completes basic education is 3 times less likely to contract HIV/AIDS.
• Educated women re-invest 90% of their income in their family. Men invest 30-40%.

But still Today

• 1 in 4 women around the world cannot read this sentence
• Girls make up 53% of the children out of school
• 98% of people who can't read live in developing countries