A powerful reflection (devised and performed by some of our wonderful students) on asking: Are you OK?
This is a 12 minute video especially for our staff - who are just amazing but who still need to look our for and after themselves in order to look out for and after their students!
Worldwide, nearly 1 in 4 girls aged 15–19 years is neither employed nor in education or training compared to 1 in 10 boys of the same age. By 2021 around 435 million women and girls will be living on less than $1.90 a day — including 47 million pushed into poverty as a result of COVID-19.
1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence. Emerging data shows that since the outbreak of COVID-19, violence against women and girls (VAWG), and particularly domestic violence, has INTENSIFIED.
At least 60% of countries still discriminate against daughters’ rights to inherit land and non-land assets in either law or practice.
As adolescent girls worldwide assert their power as change-makers, International Day of the Girl 2020 will focus on their demands to: