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Young Women In Poverty See The Bright Side During The Economic Crisis
The World Bank and the Nike Foundation launched a new $20 million program to help teach women in developing nations job skills. It will start in six African and Middle Eastern countries.
“Investing in young women is one way to break the inter-generational pattern of poverty,” World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said at the bank’s D.C. headquarters. “It’s the right thing to do, and it’s also going to be smart economics.” “This is a movement. It’s taken off,” said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a managing director at the World Bank. The President of Nike said, “Our greatest resource overall in breaking the cycle of poverty is the adolescent girl,” he said. “We’re building a bridge between relevant training and real jobs that helps accelerate the economy.”
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