Educate a girl. Change the world.
CAI-supported scholarship students in Gilgit, Pakistan, laugh at a skit during a ceremony celebrating their many talents and accomplishments.
CAI is pioneering:
� For the past 18 years, CAI has successfully worked in underserved, remote, impoverished and often-dangerous regions.
� We often work where few or no other international aid organizations operate.
� We tailor solutions for communities in high-conflict regions.
� We seek to bring together disparate groups to form alliances with a singular objective— the education of their children.
Why support girls’ education?
� Girls’ education reduces poverty, birth rates, infant and maternal mortality, child marriages, and disease.
� Girl’ s education increases self-sufficiency and civic involvement.
� Educated women are better mothers; their kids are healthier and less likely to be malnourished and better educated than children of uneducated mothers.
Why support international education?
� Education is a basic human right; it gives people a sense of meaning and personal empowerment.
� Education gives people access to information, which makes them better parents, professionals, and citizens.
� Illiteracy increases isolation. Isolation fosters fear. Extremists thrive on fear.
� Education is the surest path to sustainable world peace.
Why now?
� Studies overwhelmingly confirm that education is an effective tool.
� As the U. S. international peacekeeping forces exit these regions, the progress made in education will be severely threatened.
� Your donation will help safeguard a child’ s basic human right to education.
How can I help?
Your donations help build schools and deliver literacy, education and vocational training programs to deserving children and families in the high-conflict rural regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Your donations of time, effort and funds are essential. Whatever you can give is urgently needed and greatly appreciated by those we serve. Please give generously today!
�To donate online go to: www. ikat. org.
�To donate by mail, use the enclosed envelope, or write to:
Central Asia Institute Or, call / fax us today: PO Box 7209
Phone: 1 + 406-585-7841 Bozeman, MT 59771 USA Fax: 1 + 406-585-5302
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