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PROVIDING EDUCATION TO GIRLS ACROSS THE GLOBE From business to philanthropy: the founder of 60 Million Girls will speak at Concordia about the disparity in education for women around the world. fringe arts sports 2 5 6 10 WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHY WHEN THIS ONE STINGS! EVERYONE IS A PHOTOGRAPHER? The Stingers football team was Iconic photographer and art curator humbled by the Université de Joan Fontcuberta discusses the Montréal Carabins at home transitional state of photography 36-3 this past Saturday. caused by the so-called Second Digital Revolution. 7 3 6 10 LEAVING THE WORKING CLASS WINNING BEGINS AT HOME LIFE FOR ROCK ‘N’ ROLL The Stingers men’s hockey team finally registered their Canadian indie rock band first win of the season this past The Glorious Sons ditch Friday, in a home win over the intensive-labour work to become Carleton Ravens. rock ‘n’ rollers. 7 4 7 11 YOUNG HIGHFLYERS USING TECHNOLOGY FOR ART The Stingers men’s basketball Artist Manuel Chantre creates a team is hard at work getting its multimedia art piece that connects newcomers prepared for the different time zones together. regular season in November. thelinknewspaper.ca news fringe arts sports MCGILL STUDENTS LOBBY FOR FOR BETTER OR WHAT’S THE OFFICIAL STANCE AGAINST ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FOR MUSIC BUZZ? Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill Singer-songwriter Jon Davis released his new music Catch up on the Concordia Stingers’ past week lobbies undergraduate student association SSMU to video “Better” from his second album Open Shore, last through our online recaps. take an official position condemning Israeli human thursday at La Sala Rossa. rights violations in Gaza. Photo Credit: 1. Courtesy of 60 Million Girls 2. Shaun Michaud 3. Courtesy of The Glorious Suns 4. Courtesy of Manuel Chantre 5. Daniele Iannarone 6. Shaun Michaud 7. Shaun Michaud current affairs the link • october14th, 2014 thelinknewspaper.ca/news 4 SIERRA CANADA 28.0 % 12.4% seats held by women in a seats held by women in a adolescent birth rate LEONE lower/ single house or /and lower/ single house or /and adolescent birth rate 1.5/100 an upper house/ senate an upper house/ senate 10/100 maternal mortality ratio maternal mortality 0.012/100 ratio 0.89/100 Population with at least some secondary education, 25 +, Population with at least some secondary edu- female and male, 2005-2012 cation, 25 +, female and male, 2005-2012 9.5% (female) 100% 20.4% (male) Providing Education to Girls Around the World 60 Million Girls Founder Wanda Bedard to Give a Presentation on Educational Programs in Developing Countries by Mariana Voronovska @IamMaryanaK MBA at HEC. She started a manufactur- are closed. Ebola has become an epidemic going and staying in school [and] you have ing company, and began volunteering with in West Africa, and the quarantined com- the young ones looking up and saying ‘Hey, What began as one businesswoman’s foray UNICEF. munities isolate sick individuals. 223 health I can go to school!’” into philanthropy transformed into a char- The foundation’s name stems from the fact workers who worked with afflicted patients It’s also important to promote education ity organization that works to improve girls’ that 60 million girls worldwide don’t have have been reported dead. rights up to a high school level to prevent illit- education around the world. access to primary education. “There has been a big prevention pro- erate women from being tricked into signing Wanda Bedard, founder and president For the Sierra Leone project Bedard is gram here,” said Carrick. “Nobody is going things they don’t understand, she said. of the 60 Million Girls Foundation, will be working with fellow Montrealer Bev Car- to school.” “[Someone will tell them] their hus- giving a lecture on the educational program rick, co-founder of CAUSE Kids, a chapter of She says she hopes they can find a safe band died and they’re supposed to get a that was implemented by the organization in CAUSE Canada which sponsors education for solution for continuing school programs in bit of inheritance. They can sign it away Sierra Leone back in 2011. The presentation thousands of students and produces studies on the area. with a thumbprint without knowing what will take place at the York Amphitheatre in micro-financing and agricultural and nutritional 60 Million Girls has undertaken 16 proj- they are doing,” she said. “Often they’re Concordia’s EV building on Oct. 15. education. ects so far. The team of volunteers selects the smart, but they don’t know how to read The initiative, based in Sierra Leone’s CAUSE Kids’ sponsorship and crowd fund- most attractive project among the proposals and write. impoverished Koinadugu district, has set up ing provides literacy training for students they receive and raises funds for the cause. “You’re cut off from the world without an assisted learning project for girls using and mothers, initial financing for commu- 60 Million Girls volunteers raised $100,000 reading and writing,” Carrick continued. software from the non-profit Khan Academy nity garden programs and pays for school for the Sierra Leone program. Bedard had the In its aim to remain financially sus- to tutor students. supplies in Koinadugu District, one of the idea to use a portion of the funds to buy com- tainable, CAUSE Kids also facilitates a The pilot program uses offline Khan Acad- largest, poorest districts in Sierra Leone. puters. She says she hopes that with bigger micro-financing project called The Moth- emy tutoring programs to teach a number of “One of the things we realized [is that] our investments and the decreasing costs of tablet er’s Club, where mothers are given the topics, including math. The programs were specialty is not necessarily development,” technology, the organization can reach an equivalent of $115 CAD as starting capital saved on USB keys and transferred to the said Bedard of her collaboration with CAUSE even wider number of girls in rural areas on for commercial crop development. computers in the classrooms participating Kids. “What we felt we could do is raise their programs. 60 Million Girls seeks to fund projects with in the pilot study. money and we can certainly take the time to Carrick described the enthusiasm of the similar long-term initiatives, Bedard said. It’s one of many projects by 60 Million analyze projects and our own partners. students, saying computers are “a rare thing She and Carrick share a vision for sustainable, Girls, a foundation dedicated to empower- “[CAUSE Kids is] already in the field and in Sierra Leone.” long-term projects. Bedard hopes that in addition ing women by funding educational programs they already have structure in place and have “There is nowhere else they can get onto a to literacy efforts, the access to computers can in developing countries. the community engagement, which is really computer than where we are,” she said. increase the number of teachers in rural areas. Bedard started 60 Million Girls in crucial for a project to go well.” “Its kind of a win/win/win situation,” she 2006 following the completion of her Despite the program’s success, schools said.