$15 Can Save a Life
Did you know that 5 million girls under the age of 16 give birth each year — becoming mothers while still children themselves? Or that girls are two times more likely than boys to never set foot in a classroom? Worldwide, boys are often encouraged to get an education to prepare for work, while girls carry heavy household responsibilities that keep them from school, increasing odds of early marriage and pregnancy.
COVID-19 school closures have interrupted education for 1.6 billion children, and experience suggests many girls will never return due to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school and lost contact with education. An estimated 500,000 more girls risk being forced into child marriage and as many as one million more are expected to have become pregnant in 2020 as a result of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
How Save the Children Supports Women and Girls Around the World:
Everyone benefits when girls are empowered to lead their lives, speak their minds & determine their futures. At Save the Children, we place gender equality at the heart of all we do. This includes our work to eliminate gender-based violence, child marriage and other harmful practices, empower women and girls, and promote positive and diverse expressions of masculinity. We start at the beginning — right from birth, giving children a healthy start. We help school-age girls get an education (and stay educated!) delaying marriage and pregnancy, and helping them acquire much-needed life skills. We work with boys, men and parents, to fight gender bias in families.
Plus, we empower girls to speak up and challenge norms that discriminate based on gender. From early childhood, we reach hundreds of millions of children each year through programs promoting gender equality and empowerment to create the gender-equal future all girls and boys deserve. Since 2000, we have helped achieve a 25% decline in child marriage — empowering 11 million girls to stay in school.
This year for International Women’s Day we encourage you to help forge a more gender equal world. Celebrate women’s achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality and help make a difference for women and girls all over the world.
One way to help? Start a fundraiser on the StreamLabs charity platform. Even a little can go a long way. For example:
- $15 can save a life, feeding a severely malnourished girl for 1 week
- $25 can help train a trafficking survivor to be a peer educator for vulnerable girls
- $35 can help secure healthcare, shelter & legal services for a survivor of gender-based violence $50 can supply a home water filter, so girls spend their days in school and not fetching water $75 can send a girl to school with a backpack, books and essential learning supplies
- $100 can equip a teacher with quality school supplies, so girls have the opportunity to learn $1000 can build a child-friendly community space, where girls in crisis are protected from harm $2500 can train a teacher to provide learning opportunities for girls unable to attend school
When you’re ready to start a fundraiser, be sure and check out our custom overlays and alerts. They’re available in the Streamlabs theme library and can be installed with one click:
About Save the Children:
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. Since our founding over 100 years ago, we’ve changed the lives of over 1 billion children. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children — every day and in times of crisis — transforming their lives and the future we share.
Helpful links:
- Learn more about Save the Children
- Start a charity stream for Save the Children
- Download the Overlays
- Install the Charity Alerts into Streamlabs Desktop
- Install the Charity Alerts into other broadcasting software
