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An article he wrote on a Chinese girl too poor to go to school generated numerous small donations, and one gift by wire of $10,000—or so he thought. Only after Kristof promised the money to the girl’s village to educate other girls did he learn that it was a bank error. A call to the bank nudged them into making their error into a donation.
“That became a fascinating experiment of what happens when you do invest in girls’ education,” he said. “This village was truly transformed in ways that others were not.”
“Women and girls aren’t the problem” of global poverty, he said. “They are the solution.” He said that men in poor families worldwide spend 20% of their income on such things as alcohol, tobacco, and prostitution, but only 2% on education for girls.

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