Kalyani will probably never read this.

Kalyani lived in a village near Tiptur, a small town in Karnataka, India. As a young girl she cleaned and did laundry.

Her parents were very poor and could not send her to school. She never learned to read or write and got married very young.

36 million Kalyanis are still out of school today and, if nothing is done, most of them will never read a blog entry ten years from now.

The vast majority of us will agree that an important foundation for development is education and there is overwhelming evidence to support this claim. And yet there are still 67 million out of school children worldwide. Voiceless children

Beyond the numbers and data, the Education for All blog provides straight-to-the point perspectives on the progress and the challenges still ahead for these millions of unschooled children. We are proud to say that since launching the blog in March 2011, the number of unique visitors has reached 3,500 and is still growing at a fast pace.

Through the stories of children and their personal experiences (like Kalyani in Deepa Srikantaiah’s blog entry titled “36 million girls, Interrupted”) our team of bloggers has explored in non-jargon some of the most important issues that dot the bumpy road leading to education for all.

• Want to know why helping girls learn to read is a matter of life and death...literally?
• Read about Srenah, a ten year old girl, who like millions of other children needs to work late at night and can’t get to school in the morning?
• Understand why “free for distribution” textbooks are smuggled and sold at rocket prices in some developing countries?

Read these stories and analyses at www.globalpartnership.org/blog/

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