8. To promote the education of girls

This is a great international concern.

For two reasons: firstly because developing countries, bogged down with financial problems, overlook the formation of girls; then because it is proved that lasting social changes, particularly in these countries, are the result of patient, specific, determined action by groups of educated women.

We see a good example in India with the work of Brother Sebastian and his teams who work with 10000 women.

An estimated 78% of women in Afghanistan cannot read or write. Worldwide, an estimated 580 million women and girls cannot read or write.

With reference to our local situation, what must we decide?