Do you know how lucky you are to be able to read this?

Did you know:

Women make up more than two thirds of the world's 796 million illiterate adults - that's HALF A BILLION WOMEN who can't read or write. This trend has not changed in 20 years.

Each year of education a girl receives makes her more likely to marry later, have fewer children and be less vulnerable to violence.

Babies and children of educated mothers are more likely to survive. In Latin America and the Caribbean, for example, children of mothers with no education are 3.1 times more likely to die that those whose mothers have a secondary education.

Every additional year of primary school increases girls' eventual wages by 10-20%.

When women thrive, families, communities and economies thrive.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/commission-on-the-status-of-women-2012/facts-and-figures#Education

Women who have missed out on an education due to humanitarian crisis, poverty, early marriage, and discriminatory norms, face immense barriers accessing training and job opportunities and participating in the digital world.

We know that during conflict, girls are 2.5 times more likely to drop out of school than boys are and 48% of girls who are out-of-school today are unlikely to ever enrol in school.

UN Women's Second Chance Education Program works to reach women who have missed out on an education due to cultural barriers, gender-based violence, conflict, early marriage, and childhood pregnancy. The program provides face-to-face, online and blended adult learning, and skills training for women who need it most to ensure we leave no one behind.