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• Why a Father to Father Approach?

With your help we will continue to deploy a team of concerned family men/fathers which includes traditional and religious men who understand the importance of girls’ education.  This team is appealing to the father’s heart in other men in traditional/religious developing countries so they can help their daughters and other girls enroll and complete primary education and then access the same educational, economic and societal opportunities as boys.

An extra year of a woman's education has been shown to reduce the risk that her children will die in infancy by 5 to 10 percent. Education offers what the World Bank has referred to as a window of hope in helping prevent the spread of AIDS among today's children. A recent study of a school-based AIDS education program in Uganda found a 75 percent reduction in the likelihood that children would be sexually active in their last year of primary school. A study of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa found that from 1960 to 1992, more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth.

A Head Start report published in June 2004 points out that “Children who grow up with warm, nurturing, and actively involved fathers reap tremendous benefits, including better school performance, increased self-esteem, healthier relationships with peers and caregivers, and future access to greater financial resources, according to a recent review of the research.

In fact, children’s potential for academic success begins long before school age. When fathers read to their young children on a regular basis, they tend to raise children who are superior readers, who perform better in school, and who have better relationship skills.” Green, S. 2002. Involving fathers in children’s literacy development: An introduction to the Fathers Reading Every Day (FRED) Program. Journal of Extension, 40(5).

In her book, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters (Ballantine Books), Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician, asserts that teenage girls are twice as likely to stay in school if their fathers are involved in their lives.