Sometimes the reason is that another child, usually a boy, needs the limited family resources to support his education. In other cases, civil war has kept children from attending school.
Sometimes, as in the case of Alice Lasoi below, it’s so the girl can be married off to a man much older than herself. Alice was taken from school in the 6th grade.
FEWA is working to make it possible for women like Alice to return to school and stay there, and for girls whose families can’t afford more than one child in school to keep their girls there.
Coming soon:
Women we support tell their own stories.
Alice Lasoi, age 32, 7th grade student in Kenya
Help Us Change
these Numbers:
72% of girls
in
Sub-Saharan Africa
never enter high school.
