World Children's Relief » Girls Education http://www.worldchildrensrelief.org/blog Executive Director's blog Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 A Thought About Equal Gender Access for Affiliated Schools http://www.worldchildrensrelief.org/blog/a-thought-about-equal-gender-access-for-affiliated-schools/ http://www.worldchildrensrelief.org/blog/a-thought-about-equal-gender-access-for-affiliated-schools/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:04:04 +0000 admin http://www.worldchildrensrelief.org/blog/a-thought-about-equal-gender-access-for-affiliated-schools/ This article in Irin just came out highlighting how stubborn the issue of access for girls is in African schools.  Unicef has focused for years on the problem of fewer girls in school than boys.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=85255

There are a lot of complicated reasons why this phenomena is so difficult to address but we are working on it.

WCR has tried to be very sensitive in our training to stress the importance of equal access. In 2003-2005 we also wrote a large grant to Camfed ( www.camfed.org ) to support that goal.

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