FAWCO Target Program 2016 - 2019: 

Education – Empowering Women and Girls through Knowledge and Skills

In our Blog: Let's Get Schooled​ we will explore why education matters; we will examine the barriers, one by one, which impede women and girls from accessing quality education and completing their studies; we will become familiar with the strategies to address these issues; and we will discover who the leaders in world education are.

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Poverty = Powerlessness : Education = Power

And we’re back!

Having taken the first few articles in this blog to lay some groundwork about global education we are now going to dive deeper into the issues. We are going to begin by looking at POVERTY.

povertyWhy Poverty? Because where it exists there is little hope and there is much desperation. It steals individual’s potential, denies them their...

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Global Education Part 2: Who Is In Charge?!

global education fawcoPicking up where we left off last month, we will explore the research on global education.

Data  |  Statistics  |  Research  

I wanted to go hide under my blanket or better yet binge watch Game of Thrones as I tackled this blog issue… But I pushed through… if we don’t understand where the data is coming from and how...

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Global Education Part 1: Who Is In Charge?!

Global EducationThis was one of the first things I tried to wrap my head around when I began delving into the issues concerning global education for women and girls. I found it interesting that concern for global education issues follows a similar timeline as the evolution of modern market globalization. So we don’t need to go back too far to understand...

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Is My Project Ready to be the Next Target Project?

Well, I’m breaking the rules already! I promised you an issue dedicated to the big picture of global education: a look at the UN and leaders in global education to better understand the 2030 Agenda for education. Instead, I am highlighting the application process for the next Target Project.

applicationI have good reason: the Application Packet was just released on...

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We’ve Launched - Learn What the Top 10 Barriers to Girls Education Are!

Welcome to our inaugural blog post! It’s a little experiment to get our message out. “What message?” you ask... Education is vital to the well-being of women and girls.

The FAWCO Target Program 2016 - 2019: Education – Empowering Women and Girls through Knowledge and Skills was launched at the FAWCO Interim Meeting in Frankfurt (March 11-13, 2016).

Khyber Girls SchoolWikimedia Commons : Girls...

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