24 More Girls Are In School

The Youth Theater for Peace (YTP) team is very excited to share some more impact news from the program in Tajikistan!

Recently we shared a story about Faroiz, a teenage girl whose work raising awareness about child marriage and education with the local YTP theater group helped inspire 20 girls in her community to continue to 11th grade (the final year of secondary school in Tajikistan.)

We have just learned from a local official in another Tajik village that YTP has impacted girls’ education there, too. Over the past four years in Surkh, no girls have continued their studies after the 9th grade. (Most get married or stay at home caring for relatives.) This year, 24 girls in Surkh are now enrolled past the 9th grade, and the official says this is due to YTP activities.

If you are interested in learning more about YTP, please take a look at the project page, which has a video and additional success stories: http://www.irex.org/project/youth-theater-peace.