Education’s importance has been emphasized by a number of international conventions, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development.
Worldwide, girls constitute over half of the children out of school. Only 30 percent of all girls are enrolled in secondary school. In many countries, less than one third of university students are women.
Pan African Girl Child Education Foundation is a Non-government Organization established to stimulate international policy debate on the problems of Girl Child Education all over Africa, especially in the rural areas.