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Downing Street has announced that the UK will be spending £430m on education in developing countries, with the funding going to the Global Partnership for Education. In a news release, Boris Johnson said:
The best way we can lift countries out of poverty and lead a global recovery is by investing in education and particularly girls’ education.
It is a source of international shame that every day around the world children bursting with potential are denied the chance to become titans of industry, scientific pioneers or leaders in any field, purely because they are female, their parents’ income or the place they were born.
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