According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), denial of rights to formal education is a violation of the child’s right and leads to ignorance, poverty and disease. It is an established fact that failure to invest in tackling headlong the problem of girl-child education leads to serious social and economic consequences leading to losses estimated at 2-8 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Education has been recognized as the most important tool man has to develop his environment, and improve himself. According to the universal declaration of human rights adopted by the United Nations, education is one of the fundamental human rights; every child regardless of gender has a right to. However, United Nation statistics and other reports repeatedly show that girls have lower literacy rates than boys.

There are over sixty five million girls around the world that are not in schools, a large percentage of this figure is from West Africa. It is said that educating the girl child is tantamount to educating the nation but in Nigeria, it is apparent that the education of the girl child is not given as much attention as it requires. SAS Foundation is supportive of a Girl- child education through some forms of educational scholarships and supports for the beneficiaries.