A March 13 cbsnews.com post by Alex Sundby provided the following details about the queen's dedication to educating girls:
"I really do think this is a do-or-die year, and I don't mean that metaphorically; education really can mean life or death," Queen Rania told Couric, according to The Daily Beast.
Without a major initiative to educate the 600 million girls in the developing world, they are condemned to lives of poverty and disease, Queen Rania told Couric.
"Educating a girl is probably the highest returning investment that a country can make," the queen said.
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