The (0) education of girls is the surest way of
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reducing (1) ………… . So why are ninety million
primary school age girls not in school? It is because
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they contribute (2) ………… to the family by looking after younger children, or working in the fields. But these girls face a life of backbreaking work, with
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children who die of (3) ………… diseased, subordination to a husband and his family, and an early death. And the uneducated woman transmits to her children the same doomed life. But it does not have to be like this. Educational campaigns have
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meant that (4) ………… is almost unknown in
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Southern India, and the infant (5) ………… rate there
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is (6) ………… the lowest in the developing world. And in Africa and South Asia, where women do most of the farming, education is allowing them to learn
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how to improve (7) ………… farming practices and at
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the same time is raising awareness of the (8) ………… needs of the land. While to rural families it might
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seem an unavoidable (9) ………… to keep girls working at home, it is in both the national and international interests – as well as in the interest of the
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girls themselves – to (10) ………… the short-term difficulties and provide these girls with the education they need.
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