We're trying to plug in democracy. You can't do that. You can't just tell people to vote. You have to put in education, and land ownership.
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Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in cities. But the girls stay home, become leaders in the community and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.
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