Imagine a life where you stopped going to school at the age of 11.
No homework! No exams!
No future.
This is just what happens to millions of girls around the world.
They might be afraid because they face violence on the way to school or when they get there.
Sometimes families are too poor to send all their children to school so boys take priority. Sometimes girls have to help out at home, or in the fields or are forced to get married and start having babies.
Sometimes there simply isn’t a school for them to go to.
Plan UK wants to change all this. Research shows that when teenage girls are educated, it benefits everyone: them, their families, their community and their country.
We want the UK Government to make sure that the money they give developing countries goes to allowing girls to continue to get an education once they have left primary school.
Help us make sure they do and Act Now!
You could host a 'Girls' Night In' and raise money for our projects in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Bangladesh.
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Because I am a Girl Report 2009
“I would like to become a teacher when I grow up because I like to teach other children… how to write, how to read, so… they can get a career and decide what they would like to become when they are older.” Zoila, 13 year old girl, El Salvador
On the 22nd September Plan launched its third ‘Because I am a Girl’ report focusing on the issues which girls and young women face growing up in the 21st century economic climate.
Because I am a Girl: Girls in the Global Economy’ argues that the current financial slowdown is severely affecting girls and young women, who, even in normal circumstances, are the least likely to survive, be fed, go to school, or stay healthy.
“I would like to become a teacher when I grow up because I like to teach other children… how to write, how to read, so… they can get a career and decide what they would like to become when they are older.”
