Bloggers 4 Girls Plan International

Can you help bring safety and education to girls around the world? I want to work with you to put together a donation we can give to Plan International as a gift from us all, the ultimate Christmas Present we need in this season. When you give to the Girls Fund, you’ll help keep girls out of child marriage and in school. By providing school books, training teachers and making schools safer for girls to learn, their families will have alternative ways out of poverty and you’ll help reduce the risk of them being married. You’ll also help raise awareness of the dangers of other forms of abuse, like FGM and violence towards girls. Vitally, you’ll help communities see the value of girls. Through projects working with girls, boys, women and men, you’ll ensure girls’ voices are heard and they’re given the same opportunities to go to school and achieve their potential. Because when a girl goes to school, she can achieve incredible things for herself, her family and her community.' As bloggers we are able to rail against the things that annoy us, how we feel about things everyday, that is a gift. I'd like us to help girls be able to finish their education and feel worthwhile and important in their communities. We've all been inundated with gift guides, and present focus and it's a very commercial time of year. I want us, as women (and men) to come together at this time of year and help other women and girls around the world. Help girls who are forced into child marriage at only 8 and taken out of education Help girls who aren't allowed to work Help girls who face abuse Help girls who face female genital mutilation Help girls to stay in school. With your help I want us to raise some money, from girls, for girls. I want us to raise a donation to Plan International's Girls Fund £15 is enough for 5 girls to get birth certificates to prove they're too young to marry. As bloggers we are able to rail against the things that annoy us, how we feel about things everyday, that is a gift. I'd like us to help girls be able to finish their education and feel worthwhile and important in their communities. The online world is a wonderful place, filled with incredible, motivated, creative women (and men) and I'd like us all to even donate 50p and see if we can deliver a present to support girls.