Blog Discussion
- Universal Primary Education
- All children go to elementary school before 2015
- 90% of children attend
- Up from 82% in the 90s
- Education helps stop poverty
- 61% of those not going to school are women
- Gender Equality
- Provide equal opportunities/empower women
- Middle East, SE Asia, Southern Africa have the biggest problems
- Brazil has an online program for women going through domestic abuse
- Ruwanda farmers are getting more yields
- Uruguay role in politics
- Yemen women are getting education
- Child Mortality
- Death of children before age 1
- Children born into poor families are 5x more likely
- Highest rate in Sub-Saharan: 1 in 10
- Children of mothers with education are more likely to survive
- Improving Maternal Health
- Health while pregnant/soon after birth
- Reduce mortality by 3/4
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