UNITE the World With Africa
Why Girls?
UNITE, Ashe' Collection and all of our Global Girls UNITE youth groups all focus on the education and empowerment of girls and women throughout Tanzania and East Africa. For insights and information about the state of women and girls in Africa, we invite you to explore the work of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn, authors of Half the Sky, and watch The Girl Effect.
The best way to fight povery and extremism is to educate and empower women and girls.
-- Half the Sky Movement
By 2015, females will make up 64% of the world’s illiterate (adult) population. (PDF)
Only 30% of girls in the world are enrolled in secondary school. (PDF)
One in seven girls in developing countries is married off before age 15.
More than half (54%) of all rapes of females happen before age 18. (PDF)
Children as young as age 11 are forced to work as prostitutes. Some estimates have as many as 1.2 million children being trafficked every year.
