I think that business sector should
definitely invest in the education and
empowerment of women and this is this is
an investment on which the return is
very high return is high the profits are
high and in the opportunity cost is is
low they they when you invest in a girl
you are contributing to that girl
individually she is she's going to have
a future how do you move to actually
change the social dialogue among other
things around empowerment as women for
example and not just education
get for my land
oh well I think uh we do want to see
change and for that education is the
only way that I see for women
empowerment and it's not the job of one
person everyone has to play a role in
this whether it's at government level or
business level or NGO level or local
activist level and that is something
that I have recognized right from the
beginning and what I personally I'm
doing through Malala fund is I am
empowering and reaching out to local
advocates in Pakistan in Nigeria in
Latin America in in India and we are
empowering them so that they can bring
change in their local communities
whether it's teachers training whether
it's bringing stem skills whether it's
giving e-learning I'm also focusing on
empowering girls because they are they
are the future in giving them a voice so
that they can speak out for their rights
they can try to speak out about the
issues that they're facing so I'm doing
that but then also
governments and and presidents and prime
ministers they have a big role in
making sure that women can have access
to Quality education they can have
access to Opportunities and I think some
countries are leading in that and
they're stepping forward especially
Canada like I'm really looking forward
to G7 and uh in in the steps that you'll
be taking you'd be excited to hear about
those but I think it's everyone has to
play their roles and I'm also uh really
uh I think that business sector should
definitely invest in the education and
empowerment of women and this is this is
an investment on which the return is
very high return is high the profits are
high and in the opportunity cost is is
low they they when you invest in a girl
you are contributing to that girl
individually she is she's going to have
a future but you're also impact
impacting
uh the the country the nation it is
helping in economic growth it helps
reduce poverty it helps us tackling
climate change uh so it helps us to
reduce child labor child trafficking
Early Child marriages so the benefits
and the advantages are countless it is
just reminding ourselves that we have to
take a step and that step is investment
in education donor countries developing
countries business sector governments
everyone has to come together and play
their role
on the global partnership for Education
which is such an important initiative
that uh Malala you're so involved in
it's something that's really exciting
and actually there's a bit of
synchronicity to it for me because 16
years ago uh at uh then G8 meeting that
Canada was chairing in Canada's in
Canada uh the idea that would become the
global partnership for Education was
actually launched and what you were
doing or what the global partnership is
doing around the world right now is so
meaningful a few weeks from now in
Senegal there's going to be an
announcement of the replenishment of the
global partnership for education and
Canada is pleased to announce that we're
going to be uh pledging 180 million
dollars and we're actually doubling our
yearly contribution to the global
partnership for education
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we know that empowering women and girls
uh through education empowering the
developing world through education is an
essential pathway towards success and
that's actually also part of why a
Canada set forward a feminist
International Development policy we know
that as we look to have the maximal
impact on improving outcomes for people
in the developing World investing in
women and girls not only has been
done less than is fair or is necessary
over the past past years but is the most
effective way of making a real and
Lasting difference and that's why we are
so excited about uh about the the
partnership on the global fund for
Education Global partnership for
education and also uh the full circle
part is this year we're hosting the G7
and
in many g7s there's been discussions of
gender and it's important to talk about
empowering women and in many different
organizations we talk about and say okay
what can we do around the empowerment of
women well this year we're taking a
different approach on the G7 and instead
of making it as a specific and important
topic
we're making it touch everything we do
we've pulled together as I announced a
couple of days ago a council a G7
women's Council that will be led by
Melinda Gates and our ambassador to
France Isabel who known with many
extraordinary women being part of it and
their job is to make sure that
everything
the G7 does all the meetings all the
commitments all the initiatives that we
partner in this year and hopefully into
the future
have a gender lens that everything is
looked at in terms of how it respects
empowers enables women to be more
successful and I think that's something
that we have to look at doing in more
and more organizations in more and more
of things we do as business as usual oh
well first of all I'd like to uh thank
uh president prime minister Trudeau for
your commitment to Global partnership
for education and on behalf of 130
million girls thank you and Maxi
and thank you so much for your work as
well and I think guests investing in
science in is is just so crucial and it
applies to all subjects not just science
uh evidence empirical evidence data
these are such important things and we
shouldn't take them for granted and we
should invest in these
um
but I hope that is Canada is is leading
in this I hope that other countries can
also follow this example and they can
also make commitment towards girls
education in the car next week and I
hope that uh one day we will see all
girls going to school and getting
quality education so
so I am I'm really positive and really
hopeful and uh the
education is is not just uh if you look
at the figures of how empowering women
can contribute to the global economy
like imagine if women are brought into
Workforce like it could increase the GDP
of U.S by five percent Japan by nine
percent India by 27 it can it can it can
lead to the global growth as well in in
trillions of dollars so the outcomes and
the benefits are countless and I think
for that again investing in women
investing in girls education is is just
so crucial
let me just to continue with that
because one of the things you talked
about India and some of the developing
world where the potential is is even
more enormous than perhaps some of uh
the developed world
but a lot of those blood things that are
blocking them are really social and
culture
and how much in your work do you see
the ability or the beginning of the
changing because otherwise a lot of
people will be left behind if we don't
bring up our cultures and our values
along with that
so I always have that in mind and that
is why we are working with local
Partners local activists because we we
know the culture we know the there that
if if there's an NGO based in a western
country coming and working in Lebanon or
or Afghanistan it can be a challenge
that is why my Approach is that we work
with local activists we support them
because they know the problems and they
know the solutions they know how to best
solve those problems so in Afghanistan
there is a challenge that there are not
enough women teachers for girls that is
why parents don't send their girls to
school because they are afraid that they
don't want male teachers to be teaching
their girls so that's why we're
supporting a teacher's training women's
teachers training uh in in Lebanon we
are supporting Tech education and in
e-learning and recently I visited that
project I went to Lebanon I think it was
on Saturday so I've been quite busy and
traveling uh of universities kind to me
and uh excuses me but uh I can write you
a note if you yeah we have made an
agreement that's why I'm here uh but I
hope that like I'm giving up my my days
of school because I want to highlight
that the education of women and and
girls is just so important I was in
Lebanon and we were in this Gathering of
around 12 girls and they were all Syrian
refugee girls and I asked girls the
question that what do they want to be in
future
and one girl said she wants to be an
architect and I asked why
and that girl said that she wants to be
an architect because on the day that she
left Syria she saw her country destroyed
and devastated and that day she decided
that she would become an architect so
one day she can rebuild her country
so this is the passion that I see among
these girls that gives me courage to
continue on fighting for girls education
and when you meet these girls whether
they are in in Mexico whether they're in
Nigeria in Lebanon in Afghanistan these
girls are are so passionate about
learning about going to school about
getting their education because they
know that that is how they can get their
future because they know that that is
how they're going to get empowered so
the empowerment of girls is only
possible through quality education and
we have to keep on pushing for this and
I hope as Canada is taking steps that
other countries will follow uh and and
in their very and they will take an
action
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