Hey everyone! Just wanted to give a shout-out and let everyone know that this Saturday, December 6, there will be a benefit concert for UNICEF in the Wilkinson Center at BYU. Tickets cost $6.00, and ALL the proceeds will go to UNICEF! So even if you can't make because you've already planned a hot date, buy a ticket and support one of the most valuable non-profit children's organizations in the world. Tickets are for sale in the Wilk.
See ya there!
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Purpose of Blog:
This blog will be documenting my research concerning female literacy and related health improvements. My original project was to collect information and statistics from various sources and databases and create a cumulative source documenting the positive effect of female literacy on women and children’s health in developing African countries.
Some quick facts:
Female literacy has been shown to have a positive effect on health because “educated women are more likely to be employed and to earn more than less-educated women” (Daniell & Mortensen , 2007, p. 278), “an extra year of girls’ education can reduce infant mortality by 5-10 percent” and “educated mothers are about 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than uneducated mothers are” (Herz & Sperling, , 2004, p. 4).
References:
Daniell, B., & Mortensen, P. (2007). Women and literacy. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.
Herz, B., & Sperling G. (2004). What works in girls’ education? New York: Council on Foreign Relations Inc.
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Kels!!! Thanks so much for posting this!! I really really appreciate it! Just so everyone knows we are hopefully going to be able to donate about $1200-1300 to UNICEF to go toward providing necessary medical and educational tools to bring the number of children dying everyday of preventable causes (25,000 and largely impart because of lack of education of mothers and unavilability of vaccines, medicines, and medical services) down to ZERO!!!
Check out the "Believe in ZERO" campaign on the UNICEF website and find out how you can help.
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