Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010
I agree with Trudy Rubin (Opinion, Jan. 20), "Building schools for girls is helping to build peace." As President Barack Obama said in September 2008: "Every child — every boy, and every girl — should have the ability to go to school. To ensure that our nation does its part to meet that goal, we need to establish a $2 billion global education fund."
Dollar for dollar, education is the best antidote to poverty. Right now, there are 75 million primary school-aged children in poor countries who are still not in school, who need the chance to learn to read and write, helping to lift their families out of poverty.
Bruce Preville
Los Gatos
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