Malala Fund's 2023-2024 annual report celebrates 10 years of our commitment to girls' education.
Learning from the last 10 years
This year, Malala Fund celebrates 10 years in operation, a decade marked by important progress to secure 12 years of education for all girls.
In this time, our organisation grew and evolved. We adapted to address threats to girls’ education and worked to keep girls learning through a global pandemic, systematic attacks on girls’ rights, conflicts and climate disasters. My role at Malala Fund also evolved. I joined Malala Fund seven years ago and witnessed the organisation transform as our world did. This year, I stepped into the CEO role and I am excited and honoured to lead Malala Fund into its next decade.
As an organisation, we are incredibly proud of our partners’ collective impact — together we have reached 21.8 million students over the last 10 years. Our Education Champions’ advocacy efforts have secured critical policies to ensure all girls can go to school — from passing a constitutional amendment supporting free basic education in Brazil to eliminating hidden school fees in Nigeria’s Kaduna State. Our Girl Programme partners have supported girls to build the skills they need to advocate for education and equality in their communities, and our Girl Fellows have grown as leaders and activists.
In the last year, we strengthened our commitment to Afghan girls and women by launching our Afghanistan Initiative. It is providing more funding for alternative and digital learning programmes for girls banned from secondary school and supporting Afghan activists advocating for the recognition of gender apartheid in international law.
We deepened our engagements in Pakistan and Nigeria, where our country teams and partners successfully advocated for the government to prioritise and increase funding for girls’ education at provincial and national levels. Across five core geographies, our partners worked to increase girls’ access to secondary education from tea garden communities in Bangladesh to pastoral villages in Tanzania.
We also celebrate 10 years of your remarkable support this year. Your generosity helped us reach millions of girls and combat the threats to girls’ learning. We’re counting on your steadfast support to continue powering our global movement to get every girl in school.
As Malala Fund continues to assess how we can best support girls, our next five-year strategic plan will be shaped by important learnings from the last 10 years. As we step into our next decade, we will be as focused and driven as ever in ensuring every girl can go to school for 12 years.
