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

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A young girl performing at an event by ‘Positive Women’s Network’ in South Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Members of ‘Young Women’s Leadership Institute’ in Nairobi, Kenya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of WIPSEN and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate at a workshop with young girls in Liberia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Members of Girl Power Initiative in Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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“.                                                       […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[651,89,652,152,653,654,92,655],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-girl-power-initiative","tag-girls","tag-international-day-of-the-girl","tag-leymah-gbowee","tag-nana-yaa-memorial-trust","tag-wipsen","tag-young-women","tag-young-womens-leadership-institute"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nInternational Day of the Girl - 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