“Shall I Feed My Daughter, or Educate Her?”

*/ Summary If we don’t get education, our nation won’t progress. —Rabiya, 23, single mother of a daughter, Karachi, July 2017. Pakistan was described as “among the world’s worst performing countries in education,” at the 2015 Oslo Summit on Education and Development. The new government, elected in July 2018, stated in their manifesto that nearly 22.5 million children are out of school. Girls are particularly affected. Thirty-two percent of primary school age girls are out of school in Pakistan, compared to 21 percent of boys. By grade six, 59 percent of girls are out of school, versus 49 percent…

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