Malala Fund
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Mission Statement
Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai founded Malala Fund in 2013 to champion every girl's right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education. Malala Fund is working for a world where every girl can learn and lead.
About This Cause
Malala Fund is working for a world where every girl can learn and lead. With more than 130 million girls out of school today, we’re breaking down barriers that hold girls back. What we do: We build networks of education advocates. Through our Education Champion Network, we invest in local educators and activists — the people who best understand girls in their communities — in regions where the most girls are missing out on secondary school. We leverage their collective power to create broader change and make it easier for all girls to learn. We advocate to hold leaders accountable. We advocate — at local, national and international levels — for resources and policy changes needed to give every girl a secondary education. The girls we serve have high goals for themselves — and we have high expectations for leaders who can help them. We help develop the next generation of young leaders. Our Girl Activist Programme gives girls the tools they need to advocate for education and equality in their communities and a platform for the world to hear their voices. We believe girls should speak for themselves and tell leaders what they need to learn and achieve their potential. Our priorities: We don't accept the status quo. We fight to change it. Current rates of progress indicate that we’re still 100 years away from seeing every girl in school. That’s why Malala Fund is challenging the beliefs, behaviours and legislation that prevent girls from going to school and learning on equal terms with boys. Over the next five years, our advocacy and programmatic efforts are focused on: Addressing social norms that limit girls’ potential. Social norms — like beliefs that girls are inferior to boys or aren’t good at STEM — can influence attitudes and policies that affect girls’ opportunities to learn. Through grantmaking, research and advocacy, we’re creating a new normal, one where every girl learns for 12 years and can choose her own future. Increasing investments in girls’ education. Lack of funding limits progress on girls’ education. We work to address shortfalls in domestic financing while heightening scrutiny on girls’ education spending so that advocates can hold governments accountable. Improving education quality. Malala Fund's research indicates that almost one billion girls are currently missing out on the vital education and skills they need to secure jobs in the future. We work to ensure that education systems better support girls to develop the knowledge, tools and confidence they need to thrive in the modern world. Our impact: As a result of a two-year advocacy campaign led by the Nigerian chapter of the Malala Fund Education Champion Network, the governor of Kaduna state in northern Nigeria passed the Child Rights Act, which guarantees all children in the state the right to basic education, eliminates school fees and prevents marriage under the age of 18. This policy win made it easier for 590,000 girls and 380,000 boys to go to school. After Malala Fund’s research revealed that 20 million more secondary school-aged girls could be out of school after the pandemic has passed, we created a COVID-19 response initiative to help girls continue learning during and after the crisis. Malala Fund deployed over $3 million to our grantees in Afghanistan, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and Pakistan and we’re helping shape global and national COVID-19 responses to ensure that girls’ education is a central focus of rebuilding efforts. Assembly, our award-winning digital publication and newsletter, provides girls with a platform to share their thoughts, their challenges and their accomplishments. It’s a meeting place for girls around the world and a source of ideas and inspiration in their fight for education and equality. To date we’ve published work by girls from more than 100 countries, translated content in 24 languages and reached hundreds of thousands of readers.