Education for Everyone | Kian Akhavan | TEDxLancasterU

Being part of a world of opportunities, education is a key element for people to unleash their potential. However, 66 million girls are out of school globally.The empowerment of young girls and boys as agents of change in their communities is not only possible, but inevitable. Look at Kian Akhavan's solution for full and equal accesss to education for everyone.

Kian Akhavan is a sixth form student at St. Edward’s School, Oxford. At age 14, he volunteered to help build a school in rural Kenya, where he noticed far fewer girls than boys attending school. When he told his mother about this, she challenged him to do something about it. At age 16, he established Girls Write the Future, a charity that promotes the importance of equal access to education for girls and boys. Since then, he has raised funds for scholarships and organized a high-profile conference with a Nobel Prize laureate to inspire youth to fight for gender equality in education. Learn more about Kian’s charity at girlswritethefuture.org

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