{"id":5173,"date":"2010-09-22T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2010-09-24T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:28:42","slug":"intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/09\/22\/intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Educate Girls. Change the World. Intel makes commitment with 10&#215;10 at CGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.intel.com\/csr\/2010\/09\/educate_girls_change_the_world.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5177\" title=\"100924_clinton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/100924_clinton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Did you know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/s\/gwi\/rls\/other\/2010\/140814.htm\">one  additional year of primary education<\/a> for girls can result in a 10-20% increase in women\u2019s wages later in life?  An <a href=\"http:\/\/web.worldbank.org\/WBSITE\/EXTERNAL\/TOPICS\/EXTEDUCATION\/0,,contentMDK:20298916%7EmenuPK:617572%7EpagePK:148956%7EpiPK:216618%7EtheSitePK:282386,00.html\">increase  in female education<\/a> leads to lower infant and maternal mortality rates, protection against  HIV\/AIDS, and increased schooling for her children.  An investment in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girleffect.org\/video\">girl\u2019s education<\/a> is an investment in economic development and health for her, her family, her community and her country. That is why I was so proud to join world leaders this week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonglobalinitiative.org\/ourmeetings\/2010\/meeting_annual_multimedia_player.asp?id=6&amp;Section=OurMeetings&amp;PageTitle=Multimedia\">Clinton Global Initiative <\/a> to reaffirm Intel\u2019s commitment to global education and our commitment  to work with other leading corporations, governments, NGOs, and  communities to rapidly increase the number girls who received a quality  education around the world. Our commitment to date has been significant: more than 650,000 girls  have been directly engaged in learning life skills and gained the  ability to advocate for themselves and their communities through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/about\/corporateresponsibility\/education\/programs\/index.htm\">programs<\/a> like the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network and the Intel Learn Program.   Our Intel Teach Program  has trained more than 8 million teachers who  have each helped hundreds of children develop skills like critical  thinking, problem solving, and collaboration &#8211; all essential to <a href=\"http:\/\/video.intel.com\/?fr_story=130fc028c669ed57cb701ecbb9744fd6c413569f&amp;rf=sitemap\">girls finding a path from poverty to opportunity<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.intel.com\/csr\/2010\/09\/educate_girls_change_the_world.php\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company: Intel | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.intel.com\/csr\/2010\/09\/educate_girls_change_the_world.php\" target=\"_blank\">Intel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that one additional year of primary education for girls can result in a 10-20% increase in women\u2019s wages later in life? An increase in female education leads to lower infant and maternal mortality rates, protection against HIV\/AIDS, and increased schooling for her children. An investment in a girl\u2019s education is an investment&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}