Sadik said that a lack of education often means a lack of life skills and awareness.
“They want to keep the girl ignorant. And, you know, there are hundreds of women, thousands of women in our societies, who get married and don’t know anything about sexuality and sex, and it comes as a great shock. They get infected with HIV and they really didn’t know that they could get infected,” she said.
MasterCard Foundation President and CEO Reeta Roy said there’s no such thing as a truly free education for girls.
“Even for primary education, which is free, the fees, which are related to uniforms, to books, to supplies, to events, become prohibitive for families to actually overcome. And those costs only increase as we move up the food chain towards secondary education and to university,” she said.
Investing in a girl’s education, Roy said, pays large dividends.
“The opportunity to invest in a young [girl’s], or an adolescent girl’s education, is nothing short of not only shifting her trajectory, but actually fundamentally creating much more inclusive societies; and creating economic growth, which is much more equitable.”
Women Deliver is a global advocacy organization. Its third conference in Kuala Lumpur follows meetings in 2007 and 2010.
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