Plan UK Launches Hi-Tech Choices for Girls Campaign
by Walter E. Jacobson · Filed Under: building self esteem
In developing countries around the world, girls are denied the freedom to make choices about their own lives. The right to an education eludes 75 million girls; every year 10 million girls are forced into marriage before reaching their 18th birthday; and thousands of girls are still children when they give birth.

Women and girls across the globe are denied choices and opportunities on a daily basis due to poverty and discrimination. Plan UK’s Because I am a Girl campaign is working to correct that. Plan UK strives to highlight the reality of the world’s poorest girls and to help them gain access to education and the right to make decisions for themselves.
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