UNICEF is helping girls stay in school in Madagascar paid UNICEFUSA
Students in Madagascar — including 15-year-old Soavazaha, left, who goes to school in Amboasary, a town in the Anosy region — participate in a life skills program supported by UNICEF's Let Us Learn initiative.Fifteen-year-old Soavazaha loves math and physics. She's one of the top students in her class in Amboasary, in the Anosy region of Madagascar.
"I like to fix our lights and my phone charger. I know how to do that," she says."I don't have to wait for a man to fix it. As a woman, it's up to me to study physics so I can fix the light." But poverty, early pregnancy and child marriage force many girls in Madagascar to drop out of school before they're Soavazaha's age. About 90 percent of the population survive on less than $2 a day. Forty-one percent of the country's young women between the ages of 20 and 24 were married before their 18th birthday — the world's 13th highest rate of child marriage.
Aimed at girls between the ages of 10 and 18, Let Us Learn includes a two-month life skills program conducted by Young Peer Educators. The training builds self-awareness and covers issues like environmental protection, violence against women and the exploitation of children. "The life skills program helps us as teenagers," says Soavazaha."It helps us to face situations in life. It gives us more knowledge. When I grow up, I'd like to be a doctor. I'd like to be the one to honor my family, to be able to help family members who are sick."
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