Educating African Girls

The greatest underutilized resource in much of the Third World is young girls—and providing them with education may be the fastest, most effective way to accelerate development in those nations. Global Partners for Development, a local philanthropic group, is introducing a new program to do just that in the East African nation of Tanzania.

The introduction of the E.G.G. program (explained here), already tested in India, will come as a pilot program this fall in Tanzania. At least that's the hope. Global Partners Executive Dirctor Catherine Kirby explains how that process is expected to unfold.

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That Tanzanian trial is budgeted at $500,000, afigure that Kirby says represents a sound, cost-effective investment.