Fewer than half of Africa's girls finish primary school.
In other parts of the Philippines, only a third of children ever finish primary school.
Some estimates reckon a mere 500 girls a year finish primary education.
The report notes that 48% of African children do not finish primary school.
"He insisted that I not only finish primary and secondary schools, but go on to university and study abroad.
The plan? Finish primary school with the best scores so that I could get into a national high school.
More that 88% finish primary school, up from 62% at the end of King Hassan's reign in 1999.
But Romany unemployment is 85 per cent, and one-third of Romany children do not finish primary school.
"How could I accept to marry my daughter, who has a university education, to someone who didn't even finish primary school?" she said.
He was about to finish primary school, the end of free education, and tentatively asked if Chris and Jan would support him through secondary school.
Fajardo, 16, comes from a large family without enough money for everyone to finish primary school; she equates pregnancy with giving up her hopes of escaping poverty.
