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Intel Strives to Educate and Empower Girls Around the World

In celebration of the United Nations’ first International Day of the Girl today, Intel Corporation is expanding its global commitment to furthering education for girls and women by announcing multiple strategic partnerships and programs. Millions of girls around the world have limited or no access.

Celebrating the Power of Girls

The White House is proud to join the world community in marking the first-ever International Day of the Girl and has released a statement which can be found here.  Every year, on October 11, countries around the world will honor the importance of empowering girls so that they can reach their full denying girls school entrenches poverty:

Millions of girls worldwide are condemned to lives of hardship because they don’t go to school, an education gap that entrenches broader extreme poverty, a new report said Thursday. The report, “Because I am a Girl: The State of the World’s Girls 2012,” was released in New York by Plan International