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Empowering Ethiopia's Women
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The MDG-F is helping empower girls like these in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Amhara regions, where only a third of adult women can read and write, and few have access to adequate health, social and financial services. A joint UN programme is targeting 100,000 adolescent girls and women with literacy training, business skills and access to credit to increase their economic opportunities, as well as HIV/AIDS and reproductive health education.