Angeline Murimirwa - The injustice of girls' exclusion from education
Channel: Campaign for Female Education - CAMFED
Date: 2020-11-23

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Nicholas Kristof chose CAMFED as the 2020 Kristof Holiday Impact Prize Grand Prize winner. In her conversation with Nick Kristof, Angeline Murimirwa, CAMFED Executive Director - Africa, speaks about the injustice of girls' exclusion from education.

She says, "I see exclusion of girls from education as the highest injustice.  Because we know that it gives young people a fighting chance. The opportunity to go to school is - there’s this whole example around teaching to fish and giving somebody a fish - supporting somebody through education means that you’re teaching them to fish.  An educated woman - it makes a difference in their own individual life - I’m a living testimony to that, and millions of other girls like that  -  but it also means that for the family, for the community, that vicious cycle of poverty is broken."