Improving engagement in girls' primary schools

Funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), this Food for Education program distributed soybean oil to 30,000 schoolgirls, 700 teachers and 2,500 mothers each month. We advocated for institutional changes to ensure sustainability by boosting parent and community involvement in promoting girls' education. The program revived 154 school management committees, which advocated for girls' enrollment in schools beyond the life of the program. The program provided clean drinking water to all urban schools and 138 rural schools in Jacobabad and improved 25 basic health units, which enabled an increasing number of women to receive care and immunizations.