“There is no more powerful force against violent extremism than a girl with a book.”
Ban Ki-moon, Former Secretary-General, United Nations
Grass-roots community
Compassion Beyond Borders’ funding of scholarships through local grass-roots organizations is a cost-effective way to educate girls, but it is more than that. Funding neighborhood groups that support the education of girls builds grass-roots community.
It is by caring for each other that the poor in the developing world manage their lives–as isolated individuals they cannot survive.
When the Gateway To Heaven center opened a new nursery and primary school, built with funds from CBB, its Kenyan director named it the Queen of Love Academy. When CBB appointed a new project director in Guatemala, herself a poor woman receiving scholarships for her daughters, she named the project “Study with Love”.
Now, why did two women working with the poor almost halfway around the world from each other both connect love to education in naming their projects? Surely it is because they understand that learning must be combined with caring to be useful to their community.
Since women and girls make up 70% of the world’s poor, they are the primary beneficiaries of community, and so it is women and girls who nourish and sustain mutual sharing. Compassion Beyond Borders’ educational programs build and strengthen communities of girls and women.
