Emergency Aid in the Covid pandemic- South Asia

Why is it so important to educate girls? First of all because it is their intrinsic right, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child . Secondly because girls’ education promotes sustainable development. When girls gain access to education they acquire important knowledge that gives them greater potential for employment and income-earning as adults. Even with limited schooling, the impact of education can be observed. Studies show that for each additional year of schooling, a girl in a low-income country will increase her future income even though the extent of this increase varies according to the methodology applied. According to the latest studies endorsed by UNICEF and the World Bank, each additional year of education contributes to a 18% increase in GDP per capita at national level and to a 10% increase in individual income, with higher return rates for women than for men, while increasing the secondary education of girls by 1% generate a 0.3% increase in the annual per capita growth rate of GDP. Countries with greater gender equality and fewer gender differences in primary and secondary schools are more likely to have higher economic growth. Education also improves women’s status within the family, empowers them to make their own choices and gives them more control over resources, control that increases with their level of education. The impact on sustainable development is achieved not only through an increase in GDP but also through education itself as mothers who attended school themselves make greater efforts to ensure that their own children attend school, and health thanks to family planning, the importance attributed to prenatal care, vaccines, nutrition and doctors consultations: one additional year of school reduces infant mortality rate by 5-10%. Education for girls can therefore be the starting point of an upward spiral and lead women and their families out of poverty. Finally, with adequate education, most early and combined marriages could be prevented. For girls who studied for 7 years, the age of marriage is postponed by 4 years and women who completed secondary education on average have 2.3 children fewer than women with no education. If all the girls in low and middle-income countries completed primary school, this would reduce the under-5 mortality by 15% and if all of them completed secondary school this would reduce it by 49%. Educated women are also more likely not to justify their husband’s violence and dangerous practices such as genital mutilations and can become active leaders of change in their communities. In general, the cost-to-benefit ratio for primary school is higher than for lower and upper secondary education. However, there are two exceptions, which are the reduction of the age at first birth for which it is 40% more cost-effective to invest in lower secondary than in primary education, and the increase in the use of media .

A STORY FROME THE FIELD

Sushmita  is a daughter of a poor family from Machiara village in Khalilnagar union of Tala upazila of Satkhira district. Her father  is a day laborer and mother  is a housewife. Sushmita's elder sister  got married a long time ago, her brother  is in class VI. Her father found it difficult to pay for her educational expenses after domestic expenses. Sushmita wants to be established after finishing her studies. But her dream came to a halt due to poverty of her family. At that time Sushmita decided that she would have to do something besides her studies and stand by her father's side. While she was in class VI, she took training in tailoring. At the end of the training, she purchased an old sewing machine. Now she is a mature tailor. By working on the machine she is earning some money which he spends on her study. Now she is student of class X.