Oprah and African girls’ education.

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The $40 million project Oprah opened on Tuesday was a huge surprise to south African teachers and even officials, a surprise but the best one, all agree to say this girls’ school gives lots of opportunities to south African girls, they will  be safe and will have a much more interesting future and carrier.  The school is located in an important town. A town in which all teachers are worried about their students. The danger of Aids, prostitution, teenage pregnancy and violence is always present.

 

The project comes in a crucial period where there is a large growing campaign to improve girls education. Such female-focused aid yields perhaps the highest dividends for developing nations, say experts, though they are quick to point out that boys face challenges as well. Gene Sperling, director of the Center for universal education at the council of foreign relations said it was of a paramount importance to recognise that education of boys and girls becomes a real crisis in Africa that should be taken into consideration.

 Investing on girls’ education might be the highest- returning social investment if regard the family well-being, the women empowerment and improving health as well as reducing infant mortality. This is why the international organisation UNICEF calls on the whole nations of the world, especially in the third world countries and Africa to gender equity especially in the educational field.

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