1. What effect would gender equitable education in developing countries have on our world?

2. “Gender equity in developing countries is a major issues in todays society as women are disadvantaged to the lack the access of an education, food, clean water and basic sanitation skills.” Charities are the voluntary giving of help, typically money, to those in need. Some charities that donate to those in developing countries who suffer from gender equity in education and basic skills include PLAN, Unicef, The Girl Effect and Global Giving.

3. PLAN Founded 75 years ago, Plan is one of the oldest and largest children's development organisations in the world. We work in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. In 2012, Plan worked with 84 million children in 90,131 communities. Plan is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations.

4. UNICEF UNICEF works in over 190 countries to promote and protect the rights of children. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, clean water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and HIV. In Australia, UNICEF advocates for the rights of all children to be realised and works to improve public and government support for child rights and international development.

5. THE GIRL EFFECT The girl effect is a movement. It's about searching for the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves, their families, their communities, their countries and the world. It's about making girls visible and changing their social and economic status by providing them with specific, powerful and relevant resources. Created by the Nike Foundation in collaboration with the NoVo Foundation, United Nations Foundation and Coalition for Adolescent Girls, the girl effect is sponsored by hundreds of thousands of girl champions who recognise the unnoticed potential of adolescent girls living in poverty.

6. Global Giving The world is full of problems. GlobalGiving is full of solutions. Solutions run by innovative, grassroots projects and organizations that are working to educate children, feed the hungry, build houses, train women (and men) with job skills, and hundreds of other amazing things. GlobalGiving is a charity fundraising web site that gives social entrepreneurs and non- profits from anywhere in the world a chance to raise the money that they need to improve their communities. Since 2002, GlobalGiving has raised $84,647,327 from 321,664 donors who have supported 7,830 projects.

7. The story of Rahma The story of Rahma, from a region in Yemen where education is generally deemed incompatible with a woman’s social role, provides an instructive example. Against the objections of her community, she became the first in her town to complete high school, take a job in a private clinic, and enroll in a healthcare training program in the capital, Sana’a. Rahma has since returned home, married, and now delivers babies from a special room added to her house. The community has grown to respect her, and she has set off a chain reaction with other girls following in her footsteps, and her younger sister attending a health institute in a nearby city. A pilot program in Jordan is underway aimed at recent female college graduates. Short-term incentives were provided to prospective employers to overcome any initial hesitations at hiring women. The jobs will provide invaluable training in the skills needed for the private sector, and the women will have the chance of paving the way for others, by proving that they are as productive as their male peers. The World Bank is supporting a microfinance project in Egypt, whose goal is to promote female entrepreneurship.. Access to finance has been one of the greatest obstacles to increased female self- employment, due to a lack of acceptable collateral. The program aims to overcome this by using post office branches to distribute loans to disadvantaged women in 1,000 of the poorest villages. Initiatives such as the ones in Egypt and Jordan should be studied carefully, as they will be the source of rare empirical data on the effectiveness of policies designed specifically for women. There is a scarcity of such data across the region, and they will be critical for the formation of future policy.