article_snippet: Education of girls not only further their independence, it also cuts the rate of child deaths, teen pregnancy and helps to provide more stable families.
article_snippet: Illiteracy among women contributes to greater numbers of preventable child deaths.
article_snippet: A child born to literate mother is 50 per cent more likely to survive past the age of five than a child born to an illiterate mother.
article_snippet: Education also has a great impact on sexual and reproductive health outcomes for girls and women.
article_snippet: In many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the birth rate among girls with no education is over 4x higher than those with secondary education.
article_snippet: Providing education for girls also helps to fuel economic growth of a country.
article_snippet: An educated female population increases a country's productivity, yet some countries lose more than £650 million  a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys.
article_snippet: For example, if all girls in Kenya completed primary education, all girls in Kenya additional output would equal 20 per cent of Kenya’s GDP.
article_snippet: If all adolescent girls completed secondary education and delayed pregnancy until all adolescent girls twenties, this would add £2 billion to the Kenyan economy every year.