UNITED NATIONS GIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE

Escaping poverty through education
Christine, 14, lives in a camp for displaced people near the international airport here in the Haitian capital.

Upcoming IIEP Policy Forum: Challenges of financing basic education
Revisiting solutions involving the private sector 9-10 September 2010, Paris

Child-friendly schools make a progressive leap in Cambodia
Long Kan Buthom, 11, performs a traditional Khmer dance with ease.

UNICEF-supported child-friendly schools bring education to rural Ghana
Elizabeth, 12, is fighting to achieve a dream that was once also her father’s – completing an education.

In Côte d'Ivoire, mothers start a club to invest in the future of girls' education
Habibata Ouattara was 17 years old when she was removed from school and forced to marry a man her family had chosen for her.