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Matilda Lush-McCrum is raising money for ETATU
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I am running the Leeds Half Marathon on Sunday May 13th in aid of Etatu, a charity based in a village in Kenya. One of Etatu’s main aims is to invest in girls’ education which significantly improves their prospects and quality of life.
Did you know that a girl with secondary schooling is 6 times less likely to be a child bride than one with little education; is half as likely to experience violence in her marriage; is 70% less likely to die in childbirth and has, on average, 2 fewer children?
Education also has an amazing impact on a girl’s family: a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to survive past the age of five; an extra year of secondary school raises a woman’s eventual wages by 15-25%; and when she earns an income, she is likely to spend 90% of it on her family.
I am lucky enough to have stayed in Msambweni and have seen some of the wonderful work Etatu does, funding girls through primary and secondary school, providing lunches for orphans and building a banda, or community centre, for extra education and training for the whole village.
You can find out more at www.etatu.org.uk