GGAC funds are being used pay the living and tuition fees of five girls from the Tigray region of Ethiopia allowing them to go to school.

A grade five class in Ethiopia.Count the number of girls.

Obstacles to Education in Ethiopia

• tradition and cultural attitudes that girls belong at home, not at school
• girls are required at home to care for siblings and parents, many of whom are dying from AIDS
• when parents are able to scrape the money together for school (tuition, uniforms, books) they educate the boys first
• discriminatory attitudes, practices and behaviours
• curriculum, teaching methods and gender bias in books
• many girls are required at home to tend to fields
• some girls are married off as early as age 14
• in many areas a Bride Price is paid to the parents of the girl
  

By Grade eight, there is only one girl in the class.

"An educated girl tends to marry later and have fewer children. The children she does have tend to be more likely to survive; better nurished and better educated."
UNICEF