Five ways to celebrate Day of the Girl this year
This International Day of the Girl Child, ActionAid is celebrating girls’ right to education. Find out five ways you can join in this year and help empower girls.
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Students at the San Juan Villa Nueva School excitedly write their messages to their sponsors in the UK during Action Aid's annual message collection. Photo: ActionAid
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Tanjila (right) and her friends have recently taken part in a girl-led research project with ActionAid, to highlight the issues girls face today. Photo: Faheba Monir/ActionAid
Give girls a hand: women share their advice for girls
It can be tough being a girl. That's why women have been sharing the advice they'd give to a young girl growing up today - to show them they are strong, they are brilliant, and they can do anything that boys can do.
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Girl-led research: how we build power together
All around the world, adolescent girls living in poverty face unequal power dynamics that affect their everyday lives. This impacts their capacity to get the support they need, and to make their own decisions about various aspects of their lives.
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Purity, 13, attends an ActionAid-supported catch-up centre in Kenya, where she is getting the education that is her right. Photo: Esther Sweeney/ActionAid
Why donating period products can change girls' lives
Your donation could help provide period products for girls so that they don’t miss out on school and the education that is their right.
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Adolescent girls
Find out how ActionAid works with adolescent girls through empowerment and education.
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The Covid-19 pandemic is putting girls' education at risk around the world. Photo: ActionAid
On Day of the Girl, girls’ education is still in lockdown around the world
Covid-19 school closures around the world have hit girls the hardest, affecting their education, their rights and their future. This International Day of the Girl, we are shining the spotlight on the unique challenges facing girls during the coronavirus pandemic.
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