55 Stunning Photographs Of Girls Going To School In Different Countries

LORGINA MINGUITO / REUTERS ~ Young girls wade through water to get to school in Manila, Philippines.

Every child deserves an education. Sadly, young girls and women ― more than half of the world’s population ― are rarely given the same opportunities as boys to learn, study and succeed in life.

Around the world, 65 million girls don't go to school. Out of the 774 million who haven’t received any education, two-thirds are women. There are 33 million fewer girls in primary school than boys. And education does save lives: If every woman in the world had a primary and secondary education, then childhood deaths would be cut in half.

To celebrate International Women’s Day this Women’s History Month, Huffington Post rounded up 55 photographs of girls going to school around the world.

The pictures feature girls of all ages from Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, France and many more getting an education. Whether they are walking to school with friends or seem excited about learning something new in class, these photographs are proof that all kids should have the right to get an education, despite their gender.

Russia

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School girls attend a lesson at a school in the Tatar village of Belozyorye in Mordovia, Russia, on 1 February 2017.

India

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Indian Muslim girls recite the Koran at the Madrasatur-Rashaad religious school in Hyderabad, India, on 19 June 2017.

Japan

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Schoolgirls walk home at Ebisu district in Tokyo, Japan, on 4 September 2017.

Zimbabwe

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A young schoolgirl listens to a concert at the Glen Forest Development Centre on 3 December 2012, in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Yemen

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Girls attend a class at school (damaged by a recent Saudi-led air strike) in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, on 24 October 2017.

Sri Lanka

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Schoolgirls stand in front of the stock display board during their visit to an education program at the Colombo Stock Market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 24 November 2017.

Syria

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Girls attend a war safety awareness campaign, given by Civil Defense members, inside a school in the rebel-held besieged city of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria, on 2 May 2017.

Philippines

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A woman accompanies several students as they wade in the shallow part of a rocky beach to their school to attend the first day of classes in Sitio Kinabuksan, Kawag village, Subic, Zambales Province, north of Manila, 1 June 2015.

Somalia

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Pupils walk on 10 September 2013, inside the Gambool high school in the Garowe region, Somaliland. The school is a project funded by the European Commission and has the capacity for 1,750 pupils, both boys, and girls.

Gambia

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Two schoolgirls walk up Kairaba avenue in Banjul, Gambia, 24 January 2017.

India

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Children sit on the ground with a temporary roof to protect them against the strong sun in a small village called Bilwadi in the state of Rajasthan. The kids who come from nomadic families are 6 to 14 years old and are taught mathematics as well as reading and writing in Hindi. This photograph was taken on 29 October 2014.

Hong Kong

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School students walk down a street in Hong Kong on 4 July 2016.

Iraq

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Two schoolgirls at a school in West Mosul, Iraq, on 2 August 2017.

Russia

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Kids with schoolbags near a shoe stall in settlement of Teriberka on the Arctic coast of north-west Russia, on 27 April 2017.

Brazil

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Schoolgirls attend a class at a school in the forest in Xapuri, Acre State, in northwestern Brazil, on 8 October 2014.

South Africa

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Schoolgirls walk past riot police standing guard outside Hillbrow magistrate court during an appearance of students who were arrested during a protest demanding free education at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 12 October 2016.

Ethiopia

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Young girls line up to enter the primary school in Sheno, Ethiopia, on 18 October 2017.

Afghanistan

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Afghan schoolgirls board a bus in Qara Zaghan village in Baghlan province on 7 May 2013.

Palestine

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Palestinian schoolgirls wait for a bus which will take them to school outside their home in Gaza City on 7 September 2017.

Russia

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High school graduates celebrate the last day of their classes in Moscow's Red Square on 25 May 2011.

Germany

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Students of the 7th and 8th classes swimming during a school triathlon on 19 June 2010, in Berlin, Germany.

Haiti

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Brazilian UN peacekeepers distribute juice and crackers to students at the Immaculate Conception School 6 February 2013, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Kenya

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Two schoolgirls walk toward a commuter train in Kikuyu, Kenya, on 13 September 2016. The railway in Kenya has a long history, with the British laying the country's first rail in 1896.

Iran

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Schoolgirls walk down the street in former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's birth village of Aradan, east of Tehran, 12 March 2008.

England

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Withington Independent Girls School students celebrate getting good grades on their A-Level exams on 15 August 2013, in Manchester, England.

Morocco

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A Moroccan girl walks to the school in Taghzirt, an isolated village in the el-Haouz province in the High Atlas Mountains south of Marrakesh on 4 March 2016.

Central African Republic

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High school girls walk in the city of Birao in the Central African Republic on 21 December 2017.

Spain

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Schoolchildren wearing costumes walk during a school excursion to a permanent exhibition at Velazquez research center in Seville, 11 May 2009.

Philippines

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A girl cries while looking for her mother during the first day of classes at the Rosauro Almario elementary school in Manila, Philippines, on 5 June 2017.

South Korea

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Students take the annual Scholastic Aptitude Test at the Poongmun high school in Seoul on 13 November 2014.

Ecuador

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Girls pose at a rural school at La Palizada in Tulcan, Carchi province, in Ecuador near the Colombian border on 7 November 2012.

Palestine

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Palestinian schoolgirls attend a class at a school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Gaza City on 22 January 2018.

Bangladesh

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A Rohingya refugee girl looks out from a makeshift school at the Palongkhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on 23 December 2017.

Nepal

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Schoolgirls in orange uniforms walk to school along a trail around Manaslu Trek, Nepal.

North Korea

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Primary school students in North Korea on 16 May 2009.

Cuba

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Schoolgirls wearing school uniforms on the way home on 1 June 2009, in Trinidad, Cuba.

Syria

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Girls dance to celebrate the end of the school year in the rebel-held besieged city of Douma, Syria, on 22 May 2017.

China

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Students read outdoors at the Jigmei Gyaltsen Girls Welfare School on 21 April 2006, in Maqin County of Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. The Jigmei Gyaltsen Girls Welfare School, established in 2005, was built to provide free education for impoverished female students in pasturing areas.

Kenya

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Schoolgirls participate in a lesson in Kilifi, Kenya, on 31 June 2010. The students are part of an initiative called "Moving the Goalpost" which sponsors female students from the Kilifi district, where drop-out rates are high due to early marriages, teen pregnancy and a traditional bias toward educating male siblings over female.

Bangladesh

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Kids learning their lessons at home, in a village in Netrok.

Indonesia

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Students hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak regency, Indonesia's Banten village, 19 January 2012.

China

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Chinese children attend a class at the Jinqao Center Primary School in Shanghai on 1 September 2014.

Nigeria

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Girls walk to school in the northeastern city of Damaturu, Nigeria, on 23 February 2018.

Pakistan

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Girls in uniform sit along a sidewalk while waiting for school van in Karachi, Pakistan, on 8 November 2017.

Afghanistan

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Afghani girls raise their hands to answer a question in math class.

Vietnam

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Hmong students exercise at Hoang Thu Pho primary school in Bac Ha, Lao Cai, Vietnam.

India

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Muslim schoolgirls read outside during a break in Kashmir, India, on 7 June 2017.

France

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Girls hug each other on the first day of school outside the European School of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France, on 1 September 2015.

Mozambique

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Students in school uniforms pose for a photo on 29 September 2015, in Beira, Mozambique.

Iraq

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Girls walk past a U.S. soldier on patrol with the Iraqi police in Baghdad's Ameen district, 14 October 2008.

Gaza

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Palestinian girls walk past buildings which were destroyed by Israeli strikes on their way to school in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City on 14 September 2014, on the first day of the new school year.

Mexico

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Children play during a break after returning to school following a two-month strike of teachers due to criminal threats, in Acapulco, Mexico, on 27 January 2015.

The United States

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Students listen to instructions during a coding class at The Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria in New York on 17 September 2015.

Ghana

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Schoolgirls head home through their cocoa-producing village on 11 November 2015, in Akyekyere, Ghana.

Thailand

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Young female students in a "Pondok," a school providing general and religious studies, on 29 June 2015, in Narathiwat, Thailand.

Reference: Huffington Post