Mission
Education is essential to ending poverty and ensuring a productive life for people all over the world—especially girls. When a girl from a poor village gets a solid education, she is better able to protect her health, make a good living and raise a healthy family—improving her own life and the lives of those around her. But millions of girls around the world—particularly in poor, rural areas—face extraordinary challenges completing primary school, and barriers to graduating secondary school that are often insurmountable. Without a basic education, and with no connection to the outside world, most of these girls never get the chance to reach their full potential or the opportunity to improve the lives of their families and communities.
With today’s technology and your help, every young person in the world can have the opportunity to learn. Connect To Learn is a global initiative that provides scholarships for girls and boys in impoverished areas to attend secondary 
school, and implements mobile broadband technology to connect their classrooms to a 21st century education. Through Connect To Learn, a girl in the most remote village can walk into a classroom where she and her teachers have the opportunity to connect to people and information across the globe via the Internet, opening the door to a new world of knowledge and possibility.
Founded as a non-profit public-private collaboration by the Earth Institute (Scientific Advisor), Ericsson and Millennium Promise, Connect To Learn seeks to create a broad, public movement in support of education for everyone. We place a particular emphasis on girls to address the special challenges they face in getting enrolled in school and staying there through graduation. We invite other individuals and organizations to join us in forming a coalition of visionary leaders united together in a global effort to advance education in these three key ways:
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Raise funds from a coalition of private, public, and non-profit partners to provide three-year secondary school scholarships to those in need in order that everyone—especially girls—can have access to a complete secondary education. |
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Implement information and communications technology (ICT) in the schools that these students attend to enhance the quality of educational resources available to classrooms around the world.
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Support the establishment of a Global Fund for Education by combining our voices to raise awareness about the importance of secondary education for every girl and boy, their families and their nation’s economies. |
