• 33% live below the international poverty line
• 40% have no access to basic health services
• 45% have no access to safe drinking water
• 50% of all Pakistanis are illiterate
• 65% of rural Pakistanis (60% of the total population) are illiterate
• 70% of women are illiterate

THE BENEFITS OF EDUCATION

• A mother with a primary education is 5 times (500%) more likely to send her children to school than a mother with no education.
• The number of children born to a woman decreases by 40% if the woman has had a primary education
• Former Secretary of the Treasury, Larry Summers estimated that investing $40,000 a year to educate 1,000 Pakistani girls has the highest social rate of return in the world.
• According to the World Bank the single largest determinant of economic growth for eight East Asian economies was education.
• Studies show that on average one additional year of schooling is associated with an annual increase in farming output of between 2% and 5%. For an agricultural economy such as Pakistan, this is a critical fact.