Joining the "CHARGE" for Girls' Education

With the recent launch of the Discovery Project, Discovery Learning Alliance (DLA) is joining 30 other leading global organizations collectively committing more than $600 million to improve learning and leadership opportunities for 14 million girls over the next five years.

Announced at the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls' Education (CHARGE), will work to ensure girls can attend and complete school, make schools safer, improve the quality of learning, support girls' transition to higher education and employment, and cultivate local leaders to champion this work at a grassroots level.

"We know when girls have access to quality education in both primary and secondary schools, cycles of poverty are broken, economies grow, glass ceilings crack and potential is unleashed," said former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "The scale of this commitment matches the gravity of the challenge. Ensuring every girl receives a quality secondary education will take all of us, governments, civil society, the private sector, multilateral organizations, the entire international community working together."

The Discovery Project – co-funded by Discovery Communications and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) – represents a $38 million investment to advance learning outcomes for girls in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria.

As the implementing partner for the project, DLA works closely with Ministries of Education in 1,500 schools in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria to train more than 14,000 teachers, and reach more than 600,000 students. DLA also produces magazine-style talk shows anticipated to reach 10 million people in these three countries through entertaining and informative programming that shares the value of girls' education.

With the goal of increasing literacy and numeracy among children, particularly girls, so they can achieve their full potential, the Discovery Project seeks to transform the possibilities available to children and their communities.