Removing Barriers Girls Face with Education

Here are some facts that will blow your mind away:

• If 10% more girls received an education, GDP can increase by an average of 3%.
• Every year a girl spends in school; her income can increase by 15%.
• An educated girl can contribute up to 18% to her household income.
• 39,000 underage girls are forced to marry ‘every day’!  

These are compelling facts indeed but there are countless barriers that a girl must overcome in order for her to be able to makes the numbers a reality. Let us take a closer look at what those barriers are.

Girls are not sent to school or drop out early

Girl’s education is not a priority. More than 60% of all girls all over the world are not in school for one reason or other but no reason is as pressing as the lack of money. Girls Education Charity can help overcome that problem but there are very few donors and even though more money from charitable organizations can help the cause, there is a serious lack of funds. Charitable organizations worldwide are pressing for more money and work is on to raise awareness levels among people to donate more freely to the cause. Join in with your contributions if you have not already.

Child Marriage

Another shocking fact that will surely prop your eyes open is the number of underage girls that are married off every year. 14 million girls (that is 39,000 girls per day) are married off each day. For the lack of better education they have no means to contribute to the family’s income, which means if they received education and had a source of income, girls could contribute to the income and improve living conditions of their families – one more reason to contribute with Girls Education Charity.

Re-Centering the Importance of Islam in Modern Muslims

Historians, anthropologists and educationists have long maintained that the need for education is fundamental to the growth and development of any individual be it a male or female. The importance of that cannot be overemphasized today when young Muslim children are pursuing their dreams of being more successful than their past generation.

Does religion differentiate men and women?

If one studies the Holy Scriptures attentively, they will observe that not even on one instance has anything being said about preventing women from their right to proper education, in fact The Quran and The Sunna does not distinguish between men or women on the issue of being admitted to a Muslim College. Moreover the Holy Prophet says that a tutor be appointed to educate women a day every week. Unfortunately, that has not been the case; blame it on whatever you will, but a majority of Muslim women in the last century were completely ignorant and knew nothing much of modern science or history. Today, things have changed. The world has come to realize that education is the key maker and changer of destiny and irrespective of gender; everyone is entitled to a good education in their life.

The new dawn of Islamic education in the life of modern Muslim women

Modern governments have recognized the need for education and efforts are being to redefine citizenry that is defined by a common culture and a national identity. This began several generations ago under the Ottoman regime where students got the best Islamic education at Islamic College. In stark contrast to how women were educated back in the past few decades when irrespective of their financial condition no girl was allowed to leave the premises of their homes for education. Today, truly  the emphasis is on how to prepare modern men and women in the ways of being a truly modern Muslim.

3 Reasons Why Education Is Important For Girls

No one can imagine what the world has in all these centuries without education. Without education, not even half of what has happened would have been possible. For generations, the knowledge our forefathers gathered have been passed on to us, and it is upon us to ensure that those who come after us are as well as or better educated than us. The Holy Prophet at various times said to his followers, that education is necessary for both males and females. In another instance it is said that if need be, a person should go to China even to get the right education.  There is nothing UN-Islamic about letting the girl child read and learn. Education Girls Education Charity has changed the lives of many young Muslim women all over the globe in ways more than one. Here are some of the immediate effects of Girls Education Charity. 

Economic Empowerment: Economic empowerment is lacking in women folks in third world countries. Educating girls provide them the knowledge necessary to emerge out of poverty.  In most cases, women are heavily dependent on their spouses for income and when male stops earning, the entire family descends into poverty gradually. Girls Education Charity can help girl child offer sustenance when her husband, father or brother stops earning. You donation to female child education provides new uniforms and books to a girl child. Eventually as the girl becomes educated and capable of earning, she can take the burden of supporting her siblings’ education

Get Islamic education in an Islamic college and become knowledgeable

The number of Muslims is increasing by the day and as Muslims are increasing, they also have a need to be educated on religious grounds. When religion comes in the midst of our everyday lives and it tends to get ignored, then the need arises to take religious education seriously.

Until and unless religion is not taken seriously, how can someone take its education on serious grounds?

Parents too are busy in providing a stable future to their children, so they too cannot give as much time as they want to for their children. One solution for this underlying problem is to give admission to the children in an Islamic college.

An Islamic college is not only a good option for higher level of education, but it is also a good means for religious education and taking the education of religion on higher grounds.

Start the children’s education from an Islamic school where they’ll get all the basic education and it will be a good means for them to take the education on a new and different level.

Take the school and college education on a serious level and you’ll only get results that are satisfactory and promising. Religion is not something which people must ignore rather it is something which has to be preserved.