Twelve-year-old Radhika Yadav's fears were immediate: Without the UDAAN education program, she and over 300 other girls in Madhesh and Lumbini provinces face the risk of early marriage. The termination of the $329 million aid funding has put millions of girls’ futures in jeopardy across Nepal.
Read MoreCARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
For International Day of the Girl on October 11, 2023, CARE is launching #TakeTheMic to amplify girls' voices globally. In Mali, a young activist name Bintou has resisted forced marriage and became a vocal community leader. By challenging social norms, she secured community agreements against further child marriages.
Read MoreThousands of girls like Sufaira live in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The camps are not a healthy place for girls to grow up, which is why CARE Bangladesh runs 12 Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS), locally known as the “Shantikhana,” (literally: “place of peace”) across eight camps, the largest temporary home of refugees in the world.
Read MoreGirls’ expertise in their own lives and their dynamic contributions are visibly absent from decision-making spaces that affect their lives and rights. Whether it’s their parents deciding to stop their schooling without even consulting them or going to a health post that doesn’t know how to meet their needs as teenagers, girls and young women have a lot more to say than their families, their teache
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