Press Centre 2004/06/02: Girls’ Education
Send your daughters to school and enjoy Government support!
Minister of National Education,
Dr Hüseyin Çelik
Photograph © UNICEF Turkey 2004
Posta Newspaper, 2nd June 2004
Ankara, 2 June 2004 -- Governors of 33 provinces where the joint Ministry of National Education-UNICEF campaign for girls’ education, Haydi Kızlar Okula! is in progress gathered at Dedeman Hotel.
Speaking to the audience, Minister of Education, Dr Hüseyin Çelik said that ‘positive discrimination’ in favour of females is necessary in the field of education in order to close the existing gap.
Mrs Emine Erdoğan, the wife of the Prime Minister, advised families not to discriminate against their daughters.
UNICEF Turkey Representative,
Mr Edmond McLoughney
Photograph © UNICEF Turkey 2004
The campaign envisages cash support to mothers in order to increase enrolment rates in school for girls. The plan is to subsidise families with daughters of primary school age with a monthly payment of 25,000,000TL and 35,000,000TL to those with daughters of secondary school age. Respective payments for male children enrolled in school are 16,500,000TL and 25,000,000TL for primary and secondary education. The target is to reach 1,050,000 families.
UNICEF Representative Mr Edmond McLoughney pointed out that 600,000 girls in Turkey were out of school even though they are of school age.
The full text of the Provincial Governors’ Declaration in support of Haydi Kızlar Okula! can be found in the UNICEF Turkey Press Centre.
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OTHER PRESS RELEASES ON GIRLS’ EDUCATION ISSUES
- The Haydi Kızlar Okula! campaign was nothing short of a fortunate event for the children of the Toprak family in Altındağ who were out of school for lack of funds.
(Sabah Newspaper) - Minister of Education, Dr Hüseyin Çelik says that ‘positive discrimination’ in favour of females is necessary in the field of education in order to close the existing gap. (Posta Newspaper)
- Mrs Emine Erdoğan: “Let’s fight the ignorance that sees women as second class citizens!” (Zaman Newspaper)
- Haydi Kızlar Okula! -- UNICEF and the Ministry of National Education’s campaign to achieve gender parity in primary education -- enters the second phase with a declaration of support from the Governors of the thirty-three provinces where the campaign is currently active.
- Four female teachers in Van are today no less than ‘angels’ in the eyes of the village they are serving and the children they are teaching. (Sabah Newspaper)
- UNICEF’s annual report The State of the World’s Children 2004 Girls, Education and Development was introduced to the press on December 16th.
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