To Educate a Girl
The cost of educating a girl or woman in the developing world depends upon international exchange rates, the level of schooling, cultural needs and local conditions. Annually,
$50 is CBB's average cost of educating an impoverished girl or illiterate woman in Latin America, East Africa, and South Asia
$75 provides a comprehensive adult education to a low-caste woman in Nepal and a scholarship to her daughter
$80 buys a bicycle for a rural tribal girl to get to school in India
$100 schools a girl in a woman's shelter in Afghanistan
$135 finances a secondary school AIDS orphan girl in Kenya
$140 gives non-violence training to a woman living in a former garbage dump in Juarez, Mexico
$150 teaches a Tibetan refugee girl in India
$200 educates a schoolgirl living in an abandoned garbage dump in Juarez, Mexico
$300 supports the education of a blind girl in India
$375 meets the expenses of an AIDS orphan girl in Kenya
$400 permits a Mayan girl in Guatemala to go to school
$500 funds an alternative school for 35 Dalit (“untouchable”) children India
$600 sponsors the equivalent of a year of primary school for 30 girls in a community classroom in Afghanistan
$750 underwrites an average scholarship for a girl in university studies in the developing world
$1,500 constructs an education center for 50 Muslim and Dalit (“untouchable”) women and girls in India
