International Day of the Girl - The African Women's Development Fund

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Oct 11, 2012 Media Center / News

Today is the first ‘International Day of the Girl‘ At AWDF we believe in “Investing in young women’s leadership, and promoting an inter-generational transfer of skills and knowledge“.

PWN young girl dancer — A young girl performing at an event by ‘Positive Women’s Network’ in South Africa

Members of ‘Young Women’s Leadership Institute’ in Nairobi, Kenya

Young girls receiving education as part of Leymah Gbowee's Project — Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of WIPSEN and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate at a workshop with young girls in Liberia

Girl Power Initiative — Members of Girl Power Initiative in Nigeria

Mrs O'kwaning teaching girls — Mrs O’Kwaning, CEO of the ‘Nana Yaa Memorial Trust for Good Quality Reproductive Health’ educating girls at the Obgojo Secondary School in Accra, Ghana about reproductive health