Unleashing Girls’ Power
Videos
Unleashing Girls’ Power
Fri, April 17, 2015; 10:00 - 11:15
Location: SBS, Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
For many, the immense benefit of empowering girls is clear. Increased future incomes, delayed marriage, improvements in personal and family health and untold benefits for society overall. Educating girls has proven one of the most effective ways to realize those gains, and the impact of educating girls at the primary level is quickly becoming a global success story. But what comes after? Adolescence is a crucial, formative period in a girl’s life. The constant threat of poverty, child marriage, lack of effective secondary education and the continuing low status of girls and women are severely hampering gains made earlier in life. How can we help realize an ever-greater success story?
SPEAKERS
Featuring Mabel van Oranje:
- Jeff Skoll and Mabel van Oranje - Belief in a Collective Future
- Opening Plenary
- Unleashing Girls’ Power
- Measuring Up As Men: Mobilizing To End Child Marriage In Kenya
- Mabel van Oranje of Girls Not Brides Accepts Skoll Award
- PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE: FROM THE FRONTLINE - Skoll World Forum 2013
- Deep Leadership: Interior Dimensions of Large Scale Change
Mabel van Oranje
Board Chair
Girls Not Brides
Written by Memory Banda:
Featuring Memory Banda:
Memory Banda
Let Girls Lead Representative
Girls Empowerment Network
Written by Rebecca Winthrop:
Featuring Rebecca Winthrop:
Rebecca Winthrop
Director, Center for Universal Education
Brookings Institution
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