It’s International Day of the Girl…

Last updated on: October 11, 2013 at 4:39 pm by dannyfisher

It’s International Day of the Girl… 2013-10-11T16:39:19-07:00 dannyfisher

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…and if you’re looking for a way to mark the occasion, I strongly suggest supporting the cause of educating girls and women.

As Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have written so powerfully:

In the 19th century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.

Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance, in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. “Women hold up half the sky,” in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that’s mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it’s not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos. There’s a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That’s why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution.

If you have a few dollars, I hope you’ll send them the way of a new organization that was discussed quite a bit this week — I know I will be…

www.malalafund.org

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