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WASHINGTON D.C. / ADOLESCENT GIRLS INITIATIVE
STORY: WASHINGTON D.C. / ADOLESCENT GIRLS INITIATIVE
TRT: 2.32
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 OCTOBER 2010, WASHINGTON D.C.
FILE / RECENT / WASHINGTON D.C.
1. Wide shot, exterior World Bank headquarters
6 OCTOBER 2010, WASHINGTON D.C.
2. Tracking shot, Robert Zoellick in hallway
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank:
“Young girls must have a fair chance to lead a productive life. They aren’t just future women they are valuable as individuals, each and every one of them. And under investing in adolescent girls puts a brake on development.”
4. Cutaway, adolescent girls in audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank:
“An extra year of secondary schooling for girls can raise their future wages by ten to twenty percent. In Brazil the probability of a child surviving increases by 20 percent when the household income is in the mother’s hands and, in Kenya income in the mother’s hands increases a child’s height by 17 percent.”
6. Cutaway, audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Jarrett, Chair, White House Council on Women and Girls, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement:
“From Rwanda to Nepal, your seed programs are helping girls stay in schools, learning marketable skills, finding good jobs and in starting their own businesses. And in places where the future can seem dark for young girls, your investments are helping them rebuild for a better life. It’s incredible and I here today to tell you President Obama and all of us in his administration are committed to standing with you and making the welfare of women and girls a central part of our mission,”
8. Cutaway, Sapida Mohammad Ibrahim on stage
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sapida Mohammad Ibrahim, Adolescent Girl, Afghanistan:
“In this school what is missing is that we don’t have experienced teachers, we don’t have laboratories, we don’t have good books, we don’t have good classrooms, school, and we don’t have a library.”
10. Cutaway, Zoellick listening
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Hathaway, Girl Effect Advocate:
“Girls, hopes, dreams and potential are under attack every day, every minute of every day. Because I lived in one, I wouldn’t know how much girls around the world need safe spaces, become educated and learn about their own unique value places where girls can learn to become agents for change.“
12. Cutaway, audience
Investing in girls in poor countries brings positive economic returns and is good development, says Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank Group President.
“Young girls must have a fair chance to lead a productive life. They aren’t just future women they are valuable as individuals, each and every one of them. And under investing in adolescent girls puts a brake on development,” Zoellick said at an event to discuss empowerment of adolescent girls hosted at the World Bank.
The World Bank heads a $20 million public-private initiative that has been helping 20,000 adolescent girls in seven countries improve their lives and economics prospects.
“An extra year of secondary schooling for girls can raise their future wages by ten to twenty percent. In Brazil the probability of a child surviving increases by 20 percent when the household income is in the mother’s hands and, in Kenya income in the mother’s hands increases a child’s height by 17 percent.”
Valerie Jarrett, Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President praised the work of the program.
“From Rwanda to Nepal, your seed programs are helping girls stay in schools, learning marketable skills, finding good jobs and in starting their own businesses. And in places where the future can seem dark for young girls, your investments are helping them rebuild for a better life. It’s incredible and I here today to tell you President Obama and all of us in his administration are committed to standing with you and making the welfare of women and girls a central part of our mission,” she said.
The World Bank program is helping to improve girls’ and women’s access to jobs, credit, farm land and technology.
Emmanuel Jal, Sudanese former child soldier, author and hip-hop artist talked to adolescent girls who are part of the program.
Sapida Mohammad Ibrahim from Afghanistan goes to school but a lot is still missing.
“In this school what is missing is that we don’t have experienced teachers, we don’t have laboratories, we don’t have good books, we don’t have good classrooms, school, and we don’t have a library”, Sapida said
Anne Hathaway, actor and Girl Effect advocate said girls were the future.
“Girls’ hopes, dreams and potential are under attack every day, every minute of every day. Because I lived in one, I wouldn’t know how much girls around the world need safe spaces, become educated and learn about their own unique value places where girls can learn to become agents for change,” Hathaway told the audience.
The World Bank program is to be expanded to Haiti and Yemen.
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