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The EGG goal is
simple and focused. We aim to get more girls back in schools.
Achieving this begins
with simple, low level activities.
- We emphasize strong parental and community participation
as the key to getting girls back in school.
- Our methods improve the quality of education by reforming
schools to focus on creative life and work skills, away
from rote memorization. This increases involvement and keeps
them in school.
- We involve parents in the education process, creating
a political constituency to support and sustain the reform
of primary and secondary schools
Using a unique model for reforming operating government schools and working with government ministries, we are able to help large numbers of girls at low cost.
Our long term objective is to extend the model to every school in the regions where we work.
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Why that is important
By emphasizing strong community participation, our goal is to re-enroll at least 80% of the girls who have dropped out. Strong parental participation is key - it can increase girls' enrolment beyond 90%, even in the most traditional Islamic communities.
The next step is quality of education to keep them in school: to improve school quality to incorporate life and work skills with a focus on creative learning.
How it makes a difference
When women are educated, the transformation begins. Initially, this process can transform both the schools and the culture of the village. Extensive research from the UN and the World Bank shows that as women are educated, the birthrate falls, family health improves, literacy increases because an educated mother is more likely to send her children to school, political extremism and violence decline, and national income grows.
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