Improving Their Future One Child at a Time

Qualified Female Teachers in Short Supply Eight years ago it was impossible to find a qualified female teacher willing to teach in Lalander, the first village where TIE financed the construction of a school. Many families in Lalander would not allow their daughters to be taught by a man. Most were also afraid to let… Continue reading Improving Their Future One Child at a Time

The Girl Effect: Why Trust in Education invests in girls…Oct. 4, 2011

As “The Girl Effect” so aptly describes, educating girls makes a big difference to society in the long run: * When a girl in the developing world receives seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children. * An extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages by 10 to… Continue reading The Girl Effect: Why Trust in Education invests in girls…Oct. 4, 2011