If You Invest In A Girl Or

Think, For A Moment, About Our Educational Ladder. We've Strengthened The Steps Lifting Students From Elementary School To Junior High, And Those From Junior High To High School. But, That Critical Step Taking Students From High School Into Adulthood Is Badly Broken. And It Can No Longer Support The Weight It Must Bear.

Like In Africa, If Somebody Doesn't Have Fuel, They're Still Going And Collecting Firewood. If They Get An Oven, That's A Huge Difference. You Can Do Things To Reduce The Inequities By Making Sure That They Can Get Clean Energy, Safe Energy. To Make Sure They're Not Having To Collect Water Every Day. That's Huge For Women In The Developing World.

Women Speaking Up For Themselves And For Those Around Them Is The Strongest Force We Have To Change The World.

If You Invest In A Girl Or A Woman, You Are Investing In Everybody Else.

Human-centered Design. Meeting People Where They Are And Really Taking Their Needs And Feedback Into Account. When You Let People Participate In The Design Process, You Find That They Often Have Ingenious Ideas About What Would Really Help Them. And It’s Not A Onetime Thing; It’s An Iterative Process.