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10x10: The Girls' Education Project
IN DEVELOPMENT
The evidence is overwhelming that educating girls improves the lives of poor people worldwide. Women who are educated are less likely to contract HIV/AIDS or be victims of domestic violence. On average, they earn more money, are more likely to participate in politics, and have fewer and healthier children.
But the payoff is even more dramatic.
Regions in the developing world that have made the greatest advances educating girls -- Eastern Asia, Southeastern Asia and Latin America -- have achieved the greatest economic and social progress. Regions that have invested least in educating girls -- Soutern Asia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa -- have experienced the least economic growth. This is not a coincidence. Study after study demonstrates that money spent educating girls is an investment that pays off, leading to the alleviation of poverty and spurring development. No other single intervention produces such sweeping results.
Today 43 million school-age girls are not in the classroom -- enormous potential that is being squandered. When an educated girl becomes a highly productive woman, the benefits extend to her family, community, country and, ultimately, to all of us.
10x10 is a feature-length film comprised of ten segments, each narrated by an internationally acclaimed actress and each telling a dramatic personal story of a girl coming of age in the developing world, confronting challenges, overcoming barriers, dreaming big dreams. Taken together, the shorter films become a single story of Every Girl, crafting a film that is epic in its sweep but still intensely personal and human.