Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 5: Gender Equality

Overview with statistics and links focusing on eastern and southern African countries.

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From the website: "The world is systematically passing on poverty from generation to generation while neglecting the one group with the unique potential to break this cycle: adolescent girls. Girl Effect began as a movement to help change this."

The GPE is "devoted to getting all children into school for a quality education in the world's poorest countries."

A show sponsored by the international charity Oxfam was created to show Africans just how valuable hard-working, experienced female farmers can bel.

From the site: "Every Woman Every Child is an unprecedented global movement that mobilizes and intensifies international and national action by governments, the UN, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address the major health challenges facing women, children and adolescents."