Rebecca Winthrop - Mentions and Appearances

Many girls face a host of disadvantages that combine to impede education — poverty, discriminatory cultural norms, and in some places, militancy.

One-third of kids that are out of school live in conflict-affected countries and there are 70 countries around the world, unfortunately and sadly, where kids are being attacked just for going to school, and a number of them are girls.

I'm so happy that President Obama and the First Lady have taken up the issue of girls' education globally. This is an incredibly important issue and their strategy of mobilizing communities around the world in some of the hardest to reach places is exactly the right strategy that we need to tackle this incredibly difficult issue.

There are a crop of people at the bottom of the barrel still that are not being affected by the progress that’s being made [in the goal of universal access to primary education for all children].

Even if education is interrupted for just a few months, it can be difficult to get children back into schools. Just a daily gathering of teachers and students to read together or discuss the fragile situation around them — this sense of regularity helps.

Devoting just 4% of GDP to education can lift children in developing countries out of poverty and can improve the overall economic success for the country.