Educate Girls | Safeena Husain | Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship 2015

In this video, the Skoll Foundation visits Safeena Husain of Educate Girls in India, where she is investing in the promise of girls.This video debuted on the big screen at the 2015 Skoll Awards Ceremony, April 16, 2015, before Safeena went on stage to receive her award from Skoll Foundation Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and President and CEO Sally Osberg.
In recent years, India has enacted policies and invested in girls’ education, resulting in dramatic gains in access to education. However, in many areas, as you will see when you watch, community expectations and accountability for educating girls remain low-a majority of girls do not complete their primary education.
Safeena founded Educate Girls to ensure that girls in India’s most marginalized rural communities are able to achieve their full potential. Educate Girls partners with public schools, trains local champions for girls’ education, and mobilizes communities to create their own action plans to make education more accessible and accountable to girls.
Since 2007, Educate Girls has grown from a 50-school pilot project into a large-scale effort reaching 1 million children in 7,500 schools. With plans to achieve even greater scale over the next few years, Educate Girls is preparing a generation of young women to enter the formal economy and help lift their families out of poverty.
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VIDEO CREDITS
Director/Cinematographer
Gabriel Diamond
Editor
Matthew Beighley
Interviewers
Gabriel Diamond
Brittany Hume
Vince O’Hara
Narrator
Kavitha Ladnier
Additional Camera
Daryl Higgins
Associate Producers
Brittany Hume
Music
Marmoset
Animation and Graphics
Kia Simon
Executive Producers
Phil Collis
Sally Osberg
Suzana Grego
Jude O’Reilley
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[@EvansRebello]

Happy to have worked with Safeena and Educate Girls. A fantastic org doing groundbreaking work! Congratulations !

[@forwomanity]

Hugely proud of Safeena Husain, the team at Educate Girls and the Team Balika for winning the recognition of the Skoll Foundation and being awarded the Skoll Awards 2015. With them, all girls in India will be in school in a foreseeable future and it will have been achieved by the communities themselves.

[@preetirajoria1993]

Education is very important and every girl should be educated. Please educated your girl child it will help her in future. She can educated more people surrounding her.

[@chinammadath]

If there are a few dozen persons like you in India, we can match up with the most advanced countries in the world

[@monirulislamiqra]

just awesome

[@sonammishra1097]

Correct

[@saimakhan-dv3tk]

Waiting for the day when education will be free of cost in India

[@n.s.rajawat9819]

अगर बदलना है तो पहले खुद को बदलों , देश अपने आप बदल जायेगा ा

[@hudashaikh5315]

Jst good eductain is mst imprnt to evry one spclly girls soo plzz

[@n.s.rajawat9819]

खून एक तो ये भेद क्‍यों , इंसान एक तो ये भेद क्‍याें
खूदा की देन है बच्‍चे , फिर इन्‍ह बच्‍चाें लिंग भेद क्‍यों
-/ टिम बालिका - नरेन्‍द्र सिंह राजावत , अरांई , राजस्‍थान INDIA