Apple partners with Malala Fund to provide educational opportunities to more girls in deve...
Apple has pledged support to the Malala Fund, the organization led by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, with the assistance expected to increase the Fund's impact in providing education to girls living in developing countries, including new programs in India and Latin America.
Founded by Malala Yousafzai and Ziauddin, her father, the Malala Fund aims to champion every girl's right to an education for 12 years, one that is both safe and free to attend. The Malala Fund has been in operation since 2013, working with other organizations, private companies, and governments to help provide educational opportunities, with the Fund's own Gulmakai Network supporting programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Nigeria.
By supporting the fund, Apple's assistance is expected to help double the number of grants provided by the Gulmakai Network, as well as extending the funding programs to India and Latin America. The initial goal is to extend secondary education opportunities to more than 100,000 girls.
Apple will also help the organization to scale up, assisting with technology, curriculum, and research into policy changes needed to help girls attend school and complete their education, wherever they are located. Apple CEO Tim Cook will also take a seat on the Malala Fund leadership council.
"My dream is for every girl to choose her own future," said Malala Yousafzai. "Through both their innovations and philanthropy, Apple has helped educate and empower people around the world. I am grateful that Apple knows the value of investing in girls and is joining Malala Fund in the fight to ensure all girls can learn and lead without fear."
In a statement, Cook advised "We believe that education is a great equalizing force, and we share Malala Fund's commitment to give every girl and opportunity to go to school." On Malala herself, Cook called her a "courageous advocate for equality and one of the most inspiring figures of our time."
Malala became known around the world following an attempted assassination by the Taliban in 2012, in response to her advocacy of increased access to education for girls in Pakistan. Aged 15 at the time, a gunman's attack on Malala was condemned by world leaders, with the outpouring of support also helping raise awareness and support for her educational work.
Current global estimates suggest there are approximately 130 million girls not enrolled in any educational program.
Founded by Malala Yousafzai and Ziauddin, her father, the Malala Fund aims to champion every girl's right to an education for 12 years, one that is both safe and free to attend. The Malala Fund has been in operation since 2013, working with other organizations, private companies, and governments to help provide educational opportunities, with the Fund's own Gulmakai Network supporting programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Nigeria.
By supporting the fund, Apple's assistance is expected to help double the number of grants provided by the Gulmakai Network, as well as extending the funding programs to India and Latin America. The initial goal is to extend secondary education opportunities to more than 100,000 girls.
Apple will also help the organization to scale up, assisting with technology, curriculum, and research into policy changes needed to help girls attend school and complete their education, wherever they are located. Apple CEO Tim Cook will also take a seat on the Malala Fund leadership council.
"My dream is for every girl to choose her own future," said Malala Yousafzai. "Through both their innovations and philanthropy, Apple has helped educate and empower people around the world. I am grateful that Apple knows the value of investing in girls and is joining Malala Fund in the fight to ensure all girls can learn and lead without fear."
In a statement, Cook advised "We believe that education is a great equalizing force, and we share Malala Fund's commitment to give every girl and opportunity to go to school." On Malala herself, Cook called her a "courageous advocate for equality and one of the most inspiring figures of our time."
Malala became known around the world following an attempted assassination by the Taliban in 2012, in response to her advocacy of increased access to education for girls in Pakistan. Aged 15 at the time, a gunman's attack on Malala was condemned by world leaders, with the outpouring of support also helping raise awareness and support for her educational work.
Current global estimates suggest there are approximately 130 million girls not enrolled in any educational program.
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It's really good to see Tim Cook continuing to build his portfolio of philanthropic and humanitarian causes. At some point these will become his primary focus and the day to day running of Apple will be handed off to someone else. The only question is - how soon? Life is short.
Nevertheless, I shall give you the benefit of the doubt in disagreeing with you as to what is useful for education in the developing countries cited.
Many of the developing countries have unreliable electricity grids, or a grid that is to geographically or economically out of reach for those in rural areas or the depths of poverty. Instead of buying a Mac Mini that'll just sit in a corner doing nothing but look pretty without electricity, use the money to buy an iPad.
The iPad in the developing world has numerous advantages over the Mac Mini setup:
An iPad offers at least the total utility of an iPhone with the bonus of a large screen comparable to that of a small laptop.
The iPad can definitely do all the basics that most desktops still do now: document writing, emails, browsing the web etc.
Furthermore the iPad is capable of image processing and even 1080p HD movie editing with iMovie.
Wakaliwood is a good example of what people can achieve with even very limited resource.
Most people in the developed world don't make use of the applications which require the complexity of a "desktop" Mac: most of them don't code, carry out complex CAD, create broadcast quality 4K content or use other apps which tax processing capability. Hence, when seen from that context the idea, that a "headless Mac" would help those in the developing world struggling to maintain basic food, water, shelter and energy in addition to accessing education is ludicrous. "On the ground", an iPad is the more pragmatic solution for aiding with education and information sharing. As with the "developed world", there will be a path for those in the "developing world" with the talent and need to use the more "complex desktop machines"; I strongly suspect the proportion who fit into this category is even smaller than that in the developed world.
Malala is a remarkable young woman. I will go as far as to say that she is as an inspiration to Tim Cook. She is a wonderful example of how precious we all are as human beings and an example of how important education is for all of us upon Planet Earth, wherever and whomever we may be.
https://www.malala.org/girls-education
https://www.malala.org/donors
I do not follow, can you elaborate as to what the iPad is too expensive to in comparison to what device for the developing world?
There's also no need for a specific solar power supply for it: there are plenty of appropriate solar power solutions readily available.
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