If you educate a woman,
You educate a whole family.
Indian Proverb
Women perform 66% of the
world’s work, produce 50% of the food - but earn 10 percent of the
income.
Women represent 70% of the world's poor and two thirds of the world's 776 million illiterate adults.
Every day 1,000 women die giving life - one woman every 90 seconds; 99% of these deaths occur in the developing world.
IFPD promotes the health, education and empowerment of women in
developing countries by providing them with effective means to fight
poverty and improve their own and their children's living conditions in a
sustainable way.
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