Providing girls with an education helps break the cycle of poverty: educated women are less likely to marry early and against their will; less likely to die in childbirth; more likely to have healthy babies; and more likely to send their children to school. When all children have access to a quality education it creates opportunities that influence generations to come.

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“Persistent gaps in opportunity — between rich and poor households, urban and rural communities, boys and girls, majority and minority groups — perpetuate vicious intergenerational cycles of deprivation and disadvantage and deepen rifts in society that harm us all.”

CONTENTS

Nutrition and poverty 9

Primary education 17

Gender equality 21

Child mortality 25

Maternal health 31

HIV/AIDS and malaria 37

Water and sanitation 45

Early childhood development 51

Child marriage 55

Извор: WUNRN – 17.05.2016