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Microfinancing Partners in Africa

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Education Program

Educators identify and award scholarships to students facing extreme poverty, provide them with mentors, integrate microfinancing into the curriculum, and guide them through pay-it-forward activities, thereby empowering them.

Need: 

Due to extreme poverty, 52.5 million girls of primary and secondary school age are not attending school in sub-Saharan Africa.  ​

A girl in school is likely to:  earn up to 25% more per year completed of secondary school; reinvest 90% of her earnings in her family; reinvest in her children’s education; resist gender violence; and become a force for change in her community.

Solution: 

MPA’s Scholarship Program empowers educators to identify and give scholarships to students who are struggling in extreme poverty, assign them mentors, include microfinancing as a part of the curriculum, and guide the students through pay-it-forward activities.

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1003

Scholarships given

13560

Groups trained across 6 countries

32

Scholarships that included period products kept vocational girls in school

1500

Students attending schools with capital improvements funded by MPA donors

391 students have stayed in school due to scholarships

Our Education Program Heroes

Snapshots of Hope

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A young boy smiling.
Young children smiling.
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A group of young children singing outside.
A group of young men wearing face masks while they sit outside.
A small group of young children wearing school uniforms standing in a doorway.
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