Tonight I was watching Flashforward, one of my favorite TV shows, and the CIA Mosaic team was in Somalia. Long story short, they get intercepted by a powerful Somali man who raises the statistic that "every 6 seconds, a child dies from malnutrition." (This is supported by Action Against Hunger.)
Most people who know something about Africa know about the serious problem of malnutrition there. But do they know about the shortage of education for women? Do they know that the education of women may be a solution to that crisis? When women are given the opportunity to have an education, the people who account for about half of the population are empowered and may be able to better support their families and villages.
Too obvious? Please review-this is a possible entry for the Women's Global Education Project blog.
http://womensglobal.org/News%20and%20Media/blog.html
Not that I disagree with your thesis, but here's my take: the law.
ReplyDeleteIt would help if 'equality before the law' were a tenet lived by in African government officials. Long before any educational overhauls could get made there, some sort of systemic change of the legal system would need to precede it.
I actually read a book about solving the environmental problems we are facing today (Plan B. 3.0). One of it's solutions involved educating women as well. Sounds strange on the surface but when you start making a chain of reasoning it makes sense.
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