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Navitas is a leading global education provider, helping thousands of students obtain an education. This year, Navitas has pledged to expand your project in Nepal by providing 150 scholarships every year for the next three years! It’s an incredibly generous offer that will transform Nepal for generations. That’s not an exaggeration. We all know education is incredibly important. And not only is education a fundamental human right, but the sustainable transformation of the world depends on it! The United Nations have adopted seventeen Sustainable Development Goals—the framework for development goals for 2015-2030—and education is one of them. They have distinguished this goal as essential to reaching the other sixteen. Providing scholarships is one of the recommended ways we can reach this goal together.

There are many benefits to improved global education. Below are five amazing things you’re achieving when you support education:

1. You’re lifting families out of poverty

Cycles of inequality and deprivation thwart the potential of both individuals and societies. Many children don’t get a chance to go to school because their families rely on them for labor. Without access to relevant and employable knowledge and skills, families are unable to escape their poverty. Education can disrupt this tragic cycle. A recent report estimated that secondary education could lift as many as 420 million people out of poverty—reducing those living in poverty worldwide by more than half!

2. You’re improving nutrition and health

Education empowers people, especially women and children, to live healthier and more sustainable lives. Education can help women delay and space out pregnancies, and to seek health care and support when they need it. If all mothers completed primary education, maternal deaths would be reduced by two-thirds worldwide. Education is such a strong indicator of health that a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five, 50% more likely to be immunised, and twice as likely to attend school.

3. You’re promoting gender equality

Women and girls have considerably more difficulty accessing education than men and boys. Because education is so important, this disadvantage impacts womens’ abilities to access vocational skills and have their voice heard within their family, community, industry and government.

4. You’re building sustainable futures

Education can equip people with the knowledge and skills to contribute to the peace and the development of their countries. It helps foster tolerance between people and contributes to more peaceful societies. It’s essential in challenging and changing destructive values and behaviours. Education helps stop the stigma of leprosy and can even help prevent violent extremism.

5. You’re protecting children from child-marriage, child-labour, and child-soldiery

Children out of school are especially vulnerable to exploitation. Crises like conflict or natural disasters inflame this risk. For children who have experienced the trauma of war and displacement, education can be a total life-saver. They can connect with new friends, formal support systems and a purpose.

We should be grateful for the power of education and the many dramatic accomplishments we’ve achieved together. Enrolment in primary education amongst developing countries has already reached 91%! But there are still significant gaps, our progress has stalled and it’s not been equitable.

With an estimated 263 million children and youth not attending school, a disproportionate number live in countries affected by instability, conflict, disasters and extreme poverty. Children who face barriers to education, like speaking a minority language, living in a remote location, being displaced by a disaster, or being affected by leprosy or disability, are often forgotten. There’s much we must do to overcome this.

Last year your support provided 185 scholarships to children in Nepal. Thank you! You’ve helped equip the next generation of workers and leaders in Nepal. With the support of Navitas, your project will almost double in capacity—reaching more than 330 children with opportunities to get an education. Thank you!