The evidence is clear, and the money is not following it.
Girls’ education is among the highest-returning investments in development, and it remains chronically short of capital. That gap is the reason this Foundation exists.
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Be right, not just generous.
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15 to 20% higher future earnings from each additional year of secondary school, and for girls the effect compounds into the next generation. Source: Plan International, Education Uninterrupted flagship presentation (May 2026), slide 20.
- A compounding return. Educated girls marry later, earn more and reinvest in the next generation, so the effect multiplies over decades rather than ending with the gift.
- Interrupted schooling is where it breaks. Crisis, displacement and disruption take girls out of school first and return them last, and a girl who leaves rarely comes back.
- The capital is not there. Girls’ rights and gender equality receive a small share of philanthropic funding, set against a need that is nowhere near met.
The numbers make the case. She is the point.
Every figure on this page describes a decision somebody makes about a girl: whether she goes back after the water recedes, whether the fees stretch to a second child, whether the walk is safe. The evidence is how we choose. She is why.
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Capital, concentrated
Your gift funds Education Uninterrupted, keeping girls learning through crisis and displacement, when they would otherwise leave school first and return last.
A girl finishes school
Completion, not enrolment, is the hinge: it changes what she earns, when she marries, and what she can decide.
She earns, leads and decides
Educated girls earn more, lead more, and hold power in the decisions that affect them.
She reinvests
The next generation starts further ahead, and the effect compounds long after the original gift.
Girls’ education is among the highest-returning investments in development, and it remains chronically short of capital.
Why this, and not a general gift?
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Concentration
A general gift is spread across a very large organisation. Here your capital is concentrated on a named flagship, so what it did is legible and measurable.
Delivery
The programmes run on Plan International’s systems, safeguarding and country presence, built since 1937. You are not funding an organisation learning how to do this.