To Love Children

Expanding Children's Horizons Globally Through Local Education

The Girl Child


 

THE GIRL CHILD

 

OVERVIEW

 

To Love Children  partners with community based organizations, women’s groups, and religious leaders, locally, nationally, and internationally for the girl child by offering programs filtered through a gender lens; education, peace, human rights, gender justice, gender equality, democratic governance, conflict transformation, health, and clean water. 

"Promoting Responsible Fatherhood" as a means to achieve gender equality

We attach importance to work with local experts who believe that education is the best solution

to break the cycle of poverty.

  Create sustainable educational development opportunities for girl children

  • Promote community education programs that build functional literacy for women
  • Educate on the issue of gender awareness, role of fathers in gender equality
  • Educate on the topics of health, democratic governance, conflict transformation, environmental awareness, microfinance, informational technology, vocational training, and early childhood education
  • Create educational programs for a local community through the creation of local resource center and library which will support a child care center, health center, and meeting room for women and men.

Platform for Action  The Girl-child Diagnosis The facts that the human rights of women and the girl child are inalienable, integral, and indivisible.

  • Eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl-child.
  • Eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against girls.
  • Promote and protect the rights of the girl-child
  • Increase awareness of her needs and potential.
  • Eliminate discrimination against girls in education, skill development and training.
  • Eliminate discrimination against girls in health and nutrition.
  • Eliminate the economic exploitation of child labour and protect young girls at work.
  • Eradicate violence against the girl-child.
  • Promote the girl-child's awareness of and participation in social, economic and political life.
  • Strengthen the role of the family in improving the status of the girl-child.