The September Cause of the month is the Malala Fund.  Malala Fund is working for a world where every girl can learn and choose her own future.

The U.N. recognised July 12, 2013 as Malala Day, in honour of her courageous advocacy and to highlight the global struggle for education. With her father, her ally and inspiration, she established Malala Fund, an organisation dedicated to giving every girl the opportunity to learn and choose her own future.

Malala Fund pushes for policies that strengthen girls’ right to secondary education and increase funding for it through grantmaking and advocacy. Currently the Fund is focusing on communities where girls face the biggest barriers to education. Those include: Afghanistan, Brazil, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tanzania.

Their mission to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education is more at risk and urgent than ever before. One might ask why is this education so important? Per a study completed in 2021 and reported in the peer-reviewed medical journal the Lancet, children born to mothers who have completed 12 years of education have a 31% lower risk of dying before the age of five, as compared to children born to mothers without an education.1

Without drastic measures to change current trajectories, millions of adolescent girls in lower-income countries will remain out of school or drop out early. Girls will miss out on their right to education, and the world will miss out on their potential to strengthen economies and build thriving communities. 

We are asking that you donate to help Malala Fund continue this work so that more girls can complete secondary school.

As always, thank you for your generous donations.

If you have an organization that you wish to nominate for Sunday cause of the month, we invite you to fill out the online nomination form at https://euuc.org/sunday-offering/