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Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

~Ann Cotton

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Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

~Ann Cotton

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In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.

~Ann Cotton

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I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.

~Ann Cotton

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You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

~Ann Cotton

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Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

~Ann Cotton

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All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.

~Ann Cotton

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I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.

~Ann Cotton

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The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,' is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram's goals.

~Ann Cotton

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Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

~Ann Cotton

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Businesswoman

Born: Unknown

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