As part of the efforts to combat the aftermath of the abduction of he more than 200 girls from Chbok Borno State about two months ago, celebrities in the intenational community have come together to create a parallel to the global Bring Back Our Girls campaign naming it Let Girls Learn in an attempt to keep that consciousness raised, while focusing on the right of a girl child to education.
The campaign, encourages people to get involved with the fight for girls to go to school.
The Let Girls Learn PSA is a collaboration between nonprofit agencies, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nearly 30 celebrities, including Julie Bowen, Jennifer Garner, Alicia Keys, Tyler Perry, Anne Hathaway, Josh Duhamel, Nick Cannon, Soledad O’Brien, Susan Sarandon, and Kelly Osbourne.
“If somebody told me that going to school could cost me my life, I don’t know if I could go,” Bowen said video message released on Friday. “But to the girls who ar willing to get up every morning and face the possibility of threats and possibly death just to learn: Thank you. And they’re doing it not just for themselves, but for the girls that come after.”
Bowen said the new movement is an advocacy for educating the girl child , emphasising the advantages acrueable from such investment.
“All girls should have the freedom to learn,” Bowen said. “It’s time to unlock their potential. It’s time to let them learn. Children born to educated mothers are twice as likely to survive past the age of 5.”
The celebs revealed that USAID has also announced the sum of $241 million in new education programs in Nigeria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Guatemala.
“One more year of education increases a woman’s income by up to 25 percent. A girl who has a basic education is three times less likely to contract HIV,” they said.
“And yet, around the world, there are 62 million girls who are not in school. There are millions more fighting to stay there. You can make a difference.”
