In IIE’s Opening Minds blog Edie Cecil, IIE Vice President for Professional Exchanges and Community Outreach, writes that 32.4 percent of girls in Ethiopia enroll in 9th grade, but only 3.5 percent continue to 11th grade, which is their path to advance to university. Cecil asks: "Imagine what the impact would be on the girls, their families and their communities if we could significantly increase that number?" 

Read the blog post to find out how IIE’s new Higher Education Readiness (HER) Program will address this challenge and provide 100 girls in Addis Ababa with the tools they need to continue to university.