Girls in Bangladesh will benefit from two of 11 projects recently announced by the Nike Foundation.
The foundation will work with the Charities Aid Foundation of America
to support the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in expanding
established education, social and economic programmes for girls.
The other project in Bangladesh will be to conduct a social
communications campaign as part of an ambitious government programme.
The aim is to mobilize communities to work for centres that will widen
access to education for out-of-school children.
In China the foundation will help to develop a pilot programme to improve the lives of girls in rural areas.
The foundation, a non-profit body backed by the Nike corporation, will
place particular emphasis on tackling poverty and sex discrimination in
the developing world. Its initial efforts will support non-governmental
organizations that help to improve the lives of adolescent girls.
It provided $5.2million (£3m) for projects in the last fiscal year. The
new programmes will be in Brazil, Ethiopia and Zambia as well as
Bangladesh and China.
Maria Eitel, the foundation’s president, said: ‘Through partnerships
with extraordinary international organizations, we have continued to
evolve our strategies and deepen our knowledge of what is needed to
improve the lives of girls in the developing world as well as where the
foundation can have the greatest impact.’
