“I used to be very afraid when going to school and struggling to concentrate on my studies” says Chinsisi, a 14-year-old brave boy with albinism defying odds to remain in school and study. Object of myths fuelled by superstition, people with albinism like Chinsisi, face multiple forms of discrimination worldwide.
Words by Helen Grant, MP for Maidstone and The Weald When I was a girl, there was one day at school that changed my life forever. I was seven years old Helen Grant, MP and Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Girls Education, writes about the need to boost girls’ access to education.
A $600 million pledge to funding education, particularly girls, was made in the G7 summit but many other areas proposed by the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council have yet to be adopted.
Two resolutions seeking the provision of missing facilities in government schools and to retain allocation of 70% of the education development budget for girls’ education for the consecutive third fiscal year 2021-2022, are moved by various lawmakers of different political parties in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told the officers that this move to reserve the seats for girls will increase the number of girl students in both medical and engineering colleges.