A social movement developed to create awareness and cultivate change.
To Save a Girl, literally means to Change the World.
One person in eight is a girl or young woman age 10–24. Girls’ welfare is fundamental in determining economic and social outcomes (Levine, et al., 2009).
The cycle of neglect of girls’ rights, poor health and education indicators, meager economic options, and the generation-to-generation transmission of poverty can be broken by focused investments in girl-directed policies and programs that meet girls’ needs (Levine, et al., 2009).
Today more than 600 million girls live in the developing world.
The total global population of girls ages 10-24 (already the largest in history) is expected to peak in the next decade.
Join our cause to raise awareness and cultivate change for girls and young women in developing countries!
Save a Girl, Change the World
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
34 Million Friends of UNFPA
I want to tell everyone about a wonderful organization called 34 Millions Friends of UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). This organization began by Jane Roberts as a result of the Bush administration withholding 34 million dollars in funds that normally go towards girls and women in developing countries. 34 Million Friends began asking 34 Million Americans to give one dollar to UNFPA in support of girls and women in developing countries. He withheld $244 million in all. The current Obama Administration has released the $50 million voted by the Congress. However, there is still a tremendous need to help girls and women in developing countries.
Hillary Clinton, in her testimony to become Secretary of State: "Of particular concern to me is the plight of women and girls who comprise the majority of the world's unhealthy, unschooled, unfed, and unpaid." And she went on to say: "The United States must remain an unambiguous and unequivocal voice in support of women's rights in every country, every region, every continent." We must all (Americans as well as others) become unambiguous and unequivocal voices (www.34millionfriends.org)!
The UNFPA international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity (UNFPA, 2010). In addition, the UNFPA, programs to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.
UNFPA is guided in its work by the Programme of Action. So far, 179 countries agreed that meeting needs for education and health, including reproductive health, is a prerequisite for sustainable development over the longer term. They also agreed on a roadmap for progress with the following goals:
Universal access to reproductive health services by 2015
Universal primary education and closing the gender gap in education by 2015
Reducing maternal mortality by 75 per cent by 2015
Reducing infant mortality
Increasing life expectancy
Reducing HIV infection rates
By supporting Save a Girl, Change the World you are helping to support and bring awareness to these programs and many more like it.
34 Million Friends of UNFPA
www.34millionfriends.org
United Nations Population Fund
www.unfpa.org
Hillary Clinton, in her testimony to become Secretary of State: "Of particular concern to me is the plight of women and girls who comprise the majority of the world's unhealthy, unschooled, unfed, and unpaid." And she went on to say: "The United States must remain an unambiguous and unequivocal voice in support of women's rights in every country, every region, every continent." We must all (Americans as well as others) become unambiguous and unequivocal voices (www.34millionfriends.org)!
The UNFPA international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity (UNFPA, 2010). In addition, the UNFPA, programs to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.
UNFPA is guided in its work by the Programme of Action. So far, 179 countries agreed that meeting needs for education and health, including reproductive health, is a prerequisite for sustainable development over the longer term. They also agreed on a roadmap for progress with the following goals:
Universal access to reproductive health services by 2015
Universal primary education and closing the gender gap in education by 2015
Reducing maternal mortality by 75 per cent by 2015
Reducing infant mortality
Increasing life expectancy
Reducing HIV infection rates
By supporting Save a Girl, Change the World you are helping to support and bring awareness to these programs and many more like it.
34 Million Friends of UNFPA
www.34millionfriends.org
United Nations Population Fund
www.unfpa.org
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