Educate a Girl. Empower a Generation.
Help shape the trajectory of 7,500 girls’ lives through education.
Countless girls in rural India are denied access to education, making them more vulnerable to poverty, early marriage, and limited opportunities. Educate Girls is changing this reality, removing barriers to education and empowering marginalized girls to enroll, learn, and build brighter futures.
This International Women’s Day, we’re taking action with our biggest match campaign yet.
Education is one of the most powerful drivers of gender equality. Through this initiative, Educate Girls and The Life You Can Save aim to enroll and educate 7,500 girls in rural India, empowering them with life-changing opportunities.
Every dollar you donate is matched, doubling the impact of your generosity. Funds raised will be equally distributed between Educate Girls’ two programs:
- Vidya (Ages 6-14) – Helps young girls enroll in school, retain in school and develop foundational literacy and numeracy skills.
- Pragati (Ages 15-29) – Provides adolescent girls and young women with a second chance at education, preparing them for 10th-grade exams and future opportunities.
Educating a girl creates a ripple effect that transforms families, communities, and entire generations. An educated girl doesn’t just uplift herself—she transforms the world around her, creating lasting, systemic change. Learn more about Educate Girls.
Read Mariane Pearl’s insights on how investing in women and girls drives progress and transforms communities →
Frequently Asked Questions
Every donation made through this page will be matched dollar for dollar, effectively doubling your impact. That means a A$50 donation becomes A$100, helping twice as many people. Give now to make your gift go twice as far—until the campaign ends or the matching fund (A$235,000) runs out.
100% of funds raised in this campaign will be distributed evenly to Educate Girls’ two programs:
- The Vidya Program – focuses on enrolling out-of-school girls aged 6-14 into the formal education system and helps them stay in school. It provides them with foundational literacy and numeracy skills,, and mobilizes community volunteers to advocate for education.
- The Pragati Program – offers a second chance at education for adolescent girls and young women aged 15-29 who are ineligible for formal schooling. Through community-based learning camps, Pragati helps them prepare for their 10th-grade exams, gain life skills, financial literacy, and vocational training, and access future opportunities to continue their education or enter the workforce.
- Vidya Program (Ages 6-14): US$25.42 per beneficiary per year – Covers school enrollment, foundational literacy, and numeracy skills to help young girls stay in school and thrive.
- Pragati Program (Ages 15-29): US$94.05 per beneficiary per year – Provides second-chance education, supporting young women as they prepare for 10th-grade exams.
Anyone can donate, but only donations from residents of Australia will be tax-deductible.
We are running this campaign globally, and for the purpose of reflecting the total amount raised towards our goal on the campaign page, we are using the United States’ Federal Reserve’s (FED) monthly exchange rates for January 2025 to standardize the conversion of donations.
For communication purposes, donations made in U.S. dollars (USD) and Australian dollars (AUD) are converted using these fixed rates:
- 1 USD = 1.6052 AUD
- 1 AUD = 0.6231 USD
This conversion is applied solely to display progress towards the goal and does not impact the actual value of donations processed in each currency.
Donate to Educate Girls
Every donation made through this page will be matched dollar for dollar, until the campaign ends (03/31) or the matching funds (A$235,000) run out.
Donate by credit card above or by bank transfer over here. Please reference ‘Educate Girls match‘ in your comment on the form.
