Over 60 million girls in the world are out of school. Let's make it zero!  Donate to our girls' education campaign in Kenya because learning can’t wait! Aleksei believes educating girls is the most efficient way to ensure healthier people and more developed economies. He is inspired by Malala, who survived an attack by the Taliban and spoke out for the girls' education. Aleksei chose to donate his Kilimanjaro climb (Tanzania) and financial support of schools in Nairobi's slums (Kenya) to the cause by conducting this fundraising campaign in support of the Malala Fund.

Girls' education brings high returns not just for income and economic growth, but in other crucial areas as well—including improving children’s and women's survival rates and health, reducing population growth, protecting children's rights and delaying child marriage, empowering women in the home and in the workplace, and improving climate change adaptation.

Seeing the story of Whitney, Aleksei aims to raise girls' voices in Kenya, ensure every girl has access to 12 years of free, safe, quality primary and secondary education and to inspire by his actions.

Evidence of girls' education in Kenya to capitalize on:

1. Community engagements.
Impact: improve attitudes about gender violence and raise awareness of girls' right to education.

2. Gender training.
Impact: it improves attitudes about violence toward girls.

3. Girls' clubs - forming girls' clubs to tackle gender issues and norms.

Impact: it helps to improve girls' attitudes toward gender violence and increased their knowledge about how to report violence.

4. Financial support - Providing schools with cash assistance.
Impact: improves girls' attendance, test scores, their likelihood to continue to higher grades, and their completion. Increases girls' awareness of political issues.

5. Information communication technology - harnessing old and new technologies to provide alternative opportunities for or expanded spaces of learning.
Impact: mobile phones in Kenya helped to mediate girls' interrupted school attendance by providing them with alternative ways to access information missed at school.

6. Learning resources - Providing computers, flip charts, textbooks, and other learning material to schools.
Impact: improves the scores of the best students.

7. Menstrual hygiene support - providing girls with puberty education and menstrual hygiene materials like sanitary pads, menstrual cups, or reusable cloth.
Impact: mixed effects on girls' school attendance

8. Teacher training - improving teacher qualifications.
Impact: flexible teacher training options in Kenya helps more teachers to improve the way they teach.

9. Tracking - assigning students to classes according to similar levels of ability.
Impact: it improves test scores especially among lower-achieving students.

10. Uniforms.
Impact: providing girls in Kenya with standardized clothes helped to reduce girls' absenteeism and dropout and also delayed fertility.