After a successful campaign led by Plan Canada’s Because I am a Girl initiative, October 11 was declared the International Day of the Girl Child by the United Nations! This day will help us advocate and recognize girls’ rights globally.
In celebration of the first Day of the Girl, we are focusing on the importance of girls’ education. Because we know that educated girls marry later, have children later, and are more able to pull themselves and their communities out of poverty.
Sadly, millions of children don’t go to school just because they are girls.
Over the next five years, we are going to help 4 million girls get an education. We know they will use this education to change their own lives, and the lives of their community members.
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