60 million girls is a Montreal-based public foundation dedicated to girls´ education in developing countries. Wanda Bedard, 60 million girls´ founder and president, established the charity in 2006 to address a glaring need: 60 million primary-aged girls the world were out of school, more than half the global total at the time. 60 million girls objective is to support at least two major education-related projects in developing countries every year. Their aim is to reduce gender disparity in schools by ensuring at least half of the students impacted by each project are girls. The Foundation also places huge importance on finding innovative solutions to improve the quality of education/learning outcomes and the problem of out-of-school children.

Primary Functions

• Funding
• Networking/Convening
• Program/Project Implementation

Secondary Functions

• N/A

Geographic Scope

• Global / regional

Attainment

• Primary completion
• Primary enrollment
• Primary to secondary transition
• Secondary completion

Other

• Other

Other skills

• Life skills/sexuality education
• Rights/empowerment education
• Social and emotional learning

Quality

• School facilities
• School quality
• Teacher training

Skills

• Literacy
• Numeracy
• STEM

Website

60 million Girls

Headquarters location(s)

• Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Office location(s)

• Canada

Contacts

info@60millionsdefilles.org

60 million Girls