Two out of three children not attending school are girls. Yet educating girls is the single most effective means of reducing poverty and key to empowering women. Providing girls and young women access to school leads to lower child and maternal mortality rates and increase female participation in economic and political decision-making. WEAVE believes that the ability of women to make choices in their lives and their ability to negotiate their positions and relationships and claim their rights within the family, household and community within the context in which they function are manifestations of empowerment. WEAVE promotes gender equity in education and support community initiatives that protects and promote status of girls and young women.