pernemia. she lives in nepal. she is one of the lucky ones. she s attending school. i m proud of my school. reporter: girls in nepal have a higher illiteracy rate than boys. room to read, a global nonprofit group, that promotes literacy and gender equality and education is trying to change that. the program started out because we found out that most families, if they were able to afford education of one child, it was boys that got preferred over girls. reporter: she attended primary school, but government education is free only through the fifth grade. organizations like room to read allow her to continue her education. i am the first person getting education in my family. we are a poor family so we cannot afford to go to high school. reporter: she lives with her family above a carpet factory. her father is paralyzed and her mother is blind. without an education, she says
but government education is free only through the fifth grade. organizations like room to read allow her to continue her education. i m the first person getting education in my family. we are a poor family, so we can t always afford it. she lives with her family above a carpet factory. her father is paralyzed and her mother is blind. without an education, she says she would probably end up working at the carpet factory. but now she has big dreams. i want to be an eye doctor when i grow up because my mother is blind. so i want to be an eye doctor in the future. she is 17 years old now. just amazing young woman. she s waiting to find out if she actually passed her tenth grade final exam. i m sure she did. i m banking on that. cnn films girl rising
reporter: here there is a program to promote literacy and gender equality in education. the program started out because we found out that most families if they were able to educate only one child it was boys over girls. reporter: she attended primary school but government education is free only through the 5th grade. organizations like room to read allow her to continue her education. and the first person getting education in the family. we are from a poor family. we cannot afford all to go to high school. reporter: her family lives above a carpet family. her father is paralyzed and her mother blind. without an education she says she would end up working at the carpet factory. now she has big dreams. i want to be an eye doctor when i grow up.
we only have a week now. howard, it seems to me, and i said this as a promotional thing. next week is either the beginning of mitt romney wrapping this thing up or it s the beginning of him being unwrapped. does it still look pretty good for him? he s always in the process of being wrapped and unwrapped. now it s on a ten-state scale. it s the first national election in this national election year. ten states on one night. not as big as some of the other super tuesdays. mitt romney has to win ohio and a southern state. by the way, georgia, everybody was assuming and i was assuming, too, that it s definitely in newt s corner. the polls are fairly tight there. i know that for example, rick santorum is going there on thursday to go to the big carpet factory in dalton, georgia. they lost jobs there. all the candidates are going to compete in georgia. georgia is a big state with more delegates at stake than any other state. okay.