Subject: CTR TPs: Education For Girls' Futures
From: Burns Strider <[email-masked]>
To: CTRFriendsFamily <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:00:18 -0400
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*​TALKING POINTS: EDUCATION FOR GIRLS’ FUTURES*

*"We know when girls have equal access to quality education in both primary
and secondary schools, cycles of poverty are broken, economies grow, glass
ceilings crack and potential is unleashed."* – Hillary Clinton

*BACKGROUND:* Today, Hillary Clinton announced a $600 million effort called
CHARGE, which will help 14 million disadvantaged girls throughout the world
attend secondary school. CHARGE – the Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition
and Resources for Girls’ Education – will work to break down the barriers
that are preventing girls from completing secondary education, particularly
in areas like Sub-Saharan Africa, where 1.5 million fewer girls than boys
attend secondary school.

*TALKING POINTS:*

• CHARGE is one of many examples of Hillary Clinton’s work to improve
education for girls throughout the world, so that they have a chance for a
brighter future.

• As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton raised the status of girls around
the world by launching  a number of initiatives to promote girls’
education, such as:

o TechGirls to increase the number of girls entering the technology field;

o A partnership with Room to Read to prevent girls in South Asia from
dropping out of school;

o EAGLE, Empowering Adolescent Girls to Lead through Education, to tackle
the barriers keeping girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo from
continuing their post-primary educations.

• Secretary Clinton created the Secretary’s International Fund for Women
and Girls to provide grants to organizations efficiently and innovatively
working to improve girls’ health and education around the world.

• Secretary Clinton secured major investments in girls’ education from the
private sector, including:

o $1 million from the Abbott Fund to educate girls in Cambodia;

o $39 million from the MasterCard Foundation to support secondary education
for girls in Ghana and Uganda;

o $10 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to
improve education for girls in places like East Africa, Nigeria and India.