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A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India | Safeena Husain

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, subtitles, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. “Girls’ education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems,” says social entrepreneur Safeena Husain. In a visionary talk, she shares her plan to enroll a staggering…

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“Girls’ education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems,” says social entrepreneur Safeena Husain. In a visionary talk, she shares her plan to enroll a staggering 1.6 million girls in school over the next five years — combining advanced analytics with door-to-door community engagement to create new educational pathways for girls in India. (This ambitious plan is part of the Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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32 Comments

  1. kentrillbg1

    October 28, 2019 at 3:07 pm

    Does anyone actually care about India ? No ..and so it should be..

    • Pawan Kumar

      October 28, 2019 at 3:24 pm

      Depressed? Take pills.

  2. Rituraz Chaudhary

    October 28, 2019 at 3:07 pm

    I belongs to Bundelkhand , UP ,India …and it is worst educated and underdeveloped in whole country . Maam please if u can do something for them ….????

  3. Ace Hardy

    October 28, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    ????????✍️

  4. Fuxk stereotypes

    October 28, 2019 at 3:47 pm

    Irrelevant but her smile is really angelic.

  5. Sreshtha Mishra

    October 28, 2019 at 3:57 pm

    LETS GO INDIA

  6. Cris Brackett

    October 28, 2019 at 4:04 pm

    Gratitude for a world that allows this to happen. The Taliban must be loosing theyre hold on these villages. Praying for this peace to continue. And the heroin that they sell for less than food had a real hold on people. That must be dealt with too. Praying.

  7. Sandcastle •

    October 28, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    Banning arranged marriages would be a good start.

    • Sandcastle •

      October 28, 2019 at 11:52 pm

      @The Flaneur hahaha, oh yeah, people being free to live their life is logical abuse. Well done.
      You’re dumb.
      Now go strangle your sister because she didn’t marry your father’s business partners son like a good Indian.

    • The Flaneur

      October 28, 2019 at 11:54 pm

      The only abuse is that suffered by the kids, when educated women tank their whole families cuz of their selfishness. It’s a fact that educated women are much more likely to do so… jackass. Single motherhood is what society should be preventing, not educating womanfolk.

    • The Flaneur

      October 28, 2019 at 11:57 pm

      @Sandcastle • Yup. Cuz women love successful men who’ve established themselves.

    • The Flaneur

      October 29, 2019 at 12:03 am

      What’s it like not having a dad around? Still have esteem issues? Did your mom ever apologize for “following her heart”, and fucking your life up in the process?

    • Sandcastle •

      October 29, 2019 at 12:10 am

      @The Flaneur that doesn’t describe my parents at all. Your ignorance is a symptom of your regressive world view.
      Nice to know you still don’t care about your dead sister.

  8. Ankit Sahu

    October 28, 2019 at 4:18 pm

    Good ????

  9. Ali Awan

    October 28, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    I hope you’ll bring a plan to withdraw a million troops from Indian Occupied Kashmir as well.

  10. Alan Geisdorf

    October 28, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    aha !! I just had a feeling something was up, its not about educating them, its about turning them into phone zombies.

  11. REDDY GOVARDHAN REDDY

    October 28, 2019 at 5:57 pm

    Congratulations to team for empowering India, jai Hind

  12. multent

    October 28, 2019 at 6:16 pm

    Mam I salute u
    For the work u are doing

  13. Vance H

    October 28, 2019 at 6:41 pm

    Sharing, Justice and Peace for All.

  14. Claire

    October 28, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    I wish they would put a link to their RCT study.

  15. Mark C

    October 28, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    While education is admirable, India would do a lot better stopping the rapes. A few hundred castrations of rapists would do wonders for the quality of life all women in India overnight.

  16. Martin Zumbühl

    October 28, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    By the way, use the search engine “Ecosia”. That is a nonprofit Company which spends almost all money they earn into tree-planting.☺????????

  17. The Flaneur

    October 28, 2019 at 11:26 pm

    In the West this has backfired, since now immigrant women have to leave their own families, to raise other womens’ kids, who themselves go to work to teach other womens’ kids. Government’s love it since they get tax revenue, and corporations get to cut wages in half. And that is why your kids are all fucked up. Pseudo-parents.

  18. Ken Belangel

    October 29, 2019 at 1:21 am

    Education is good, as long as you don’t take out student loans

  19. Liqiang Zhang

    October 29, 2019 at 3:14 am

    She said the words with tears in her eyes.

  20. Bhantam

    October 29, 2019 at 4:56 am

    only $200 donated?.. people of the Tube, please give these projects more attention than????????????????????????????????????????????

  21. mac 187

    October 29, 2019 at 7:13 am

    Empowering women is a big problem

  22. Jack Chevy

    October 29, 2019 at 8:35 am

    Are they trying to empower the boys to?? Or just the girls??

    • Flying Potatoe

      October 29, 2019 at 8:52 am

      Jack Chevy If you’re looking for empowerment for boys you obviously picked the wrong video. Yes there is lots of empowerment for boys. They don’t even have to try. Close to every famous successful person is a man. They are trying to balance it. If you just came here to comment that I feel sorry for you

  23. Sahib Singh

    October 29, 2019 at 11:55 am

    ????????????✍️

  24. Sathish Kumar

    October 29, 2019 at 2:26 pm

    Madam your doing a good job… Keep going..

  25. hki cgh

    October 29, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    Number of Out of school girls in India is far more than 1.6 million statistically speaking, Although the number should not make you feel better about your country.

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