If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.
Interpretation
Educating girls is essential for improving health and reducing infant mortality in a culture.
Greg Mortenson emphasizes that education for girls is a critical factor in transforming a culture to address fundamental issues such as hygiene, health care, and high rates of infant mortality. By empowering girls through education, communities can significantly enhance their overall well-being and futures.
In practice
During a women's empowerment workshop, the facilitator quoted Mortenson to inspire attendees.
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.
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