Girls Rule - International Day of the Girl

On October 11, 2012 the United Nations officially designated this day as the first annual UN International Day of the Girl. What a great event this is to highlight gender inequalities, focus on  how girls are discriminated throughout the world and highlight the ways girls are abused (verbally, sexually and physically) by their societies.

This day is special as it finally helps to educate people around the world on the importance that girls can have in their families, communities and the world. For girls it highlights the importance to them of knowing their rights as girls - like the right to food and clean safe drinking water, access to health care, the right to say NO to unwanted sexual advances and most importantly the right to quality education. It is a known fact that girls and women really do have the greatest impact on the improvement of their communities. And education truly is the only way girls can make the most of their life and have the greatest impact on moving their families and their communities from poverty to prosperity.

Things will not change overnight, opportunities for girls will develop slowly but if the world knows that girls are a valued part of society change can happen.

 

Members of Sere Girls Club collecting garbage along the roadside

 

 

Girls burning the collected garbage - keeping Wongonyi Village Clean

 

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Our own Sere Girls Club in Wongonyi Village, Kenya know the importance of being girls and the impact they can have on their community. To celebrate the ist annual UN International Day of the Girl, they held a Community Clean-up educating the local villagers on the importance of having a clean village and that everyone is responsibile for taking care of the planet. We applaud the girls of Sere Girls Club for this great initiative - you go girls!