投资女孩 势在必行(3/3)
概述：相关人士强调女孩子们教育的重要性，呼吁减免费用，增加机会。Hints:
Nafis Sadik
MasterCard Foundation
Reeta Roy
Women Deliver
Kuala Lumpur
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201306/201306030803587346065.mp3However, U.N. special advisor Dr. Nafis Sadik says when it comes to education, what girls want and what they get are often two different things.
Sadik says a lack of education often means a lack of life skills and awareness.
MasterCard Foundation President and CEO Reeta Roy says there is no such thing as a truly free education for girls.
"Even for primary education, which is free, the fees, which are related to uniforms, to books, to supplies, to events, become prohibitive for families to actually overcome. And those costs only increase as we move up the food chain to a secondary education and to university."
Roy says, investing in a girl's education pays large dividends.
"The opportunity to invest in a young girl, or an adolescent girl's education, is nothing short of not only shifting her trajectory, but actually fundamentally creating much more inclusive societies; and creating economic growth, which is much more equitable."
Women Deliver is a global advocacy organization. Its third conference in Kuala Lumpur follows meetings in 2007 and 2010.然而，联合国特别顾问Nafis Sadik博士表示，当谈到教育问题的时候，女孩们想要的和她们所得到的通常是不同的东西。
Sadik说，缺乏教育通常就意味着缺乏生存技能与意识。
万事达信用卡基金会主席兼首席执行官Reeta Roy说，所谓为女孩们提供的真正免费的教育是不存在的。
“即使是免费的初级教育，制服、书本、物资、活动等需要的费用都高于一些家庭实际能够支付的费用。而当我们把食物链向上移至中等教育和大学，这些费用只增不减。”
Roy表示，在女孩的教育上投资能够带来大量的回报。
“有机会在年轻女孩，或者正处于青春期的少女的教育上投资，绝不仅仅是短暂地改变她的生活轨道，而且是真正从根本上创造了一个更加具有包容性的社会，创造经济增长。这是更加公平的。”
"Women Deliver"是一个全球性的倡导组织。继2007年和2010年（的两次会议）之后，该组织在吉隆坡举办了第三次会议。
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