International Day Of The Girl Child: Time To Pull Down All Barriers Limiting The Girl Child.

By Raymond Dingana in Bamenda.


During activities to celebrate the 2019 edition of the International Day of the Girl Child by Plan International, Saturday October 12, 2019 in Mulang, Bamenda II Sub Division of the North West Region of Cameroon, the children underscored the need for Parents, Guardians and the Powers that be to ensure that, all barriers limiting the Girl Child in the community are pulled down. The children also used the day to frown at those who prefer to empower only the Male Child there by relegating the Girl child to the background saying, what a Male Child can do, a Girl Child can do and even better.
 Celebrated with the theme; Girl Force: Unscripted, Unstoppable, Empowering Girls For A Better Tomorrow, Plan International is at the forefront saying No to Rape, Child Marriages ,Female Genital Mutilation ,Breast Ironing among others and Yes to Empowering the Girl Child for a better tomorrow.
In other to make this happen, Plan International has created more than forty Child Friendly Spaces in the Region which has bought together children of both sexes with the Girl Child in the majority and many of them being Internally Displaced as a result of the Anglophone crises.
Madam Sylvia Anyangwa Mbu is Child Protection in Emergency Coordinator. She says the Child Friendly Spaces are there to offer psychosocial supports to children amongst others. Read her: These are spaces that are accessible to children especially the internally displaced that are found in host communities. In these spaces, Plan International offer psycho-social supports, Plan International carry out activities that can help  them shake off the stress that they have gone through due to the crises, and has out in place some basic  vocational training programs for them. The spaces also serve as a forum where the children come and are  safe from other dangers”.
At the Presbyterian Church in Mulang where one of such spaces is found,  Debra is a focal point working with Plan International. She says: “Plan International has been providing sanitary kids to the children; Plan International takes care of their feeding and many others. Plan International also train parents and guidance on how to guide and protect the children especially the Girl Child during emergencies”.

Other activities to mark the International Day of the Girl Child  by Plan International included Fashion parades, Debate on the topic, should house hold chores be done only by the Girl Child, Eating and Reading Competitions, Award of Prizes among others.




                                       Happy International Day Of The Girl Child





                                 The Beauty Of The Girl Child After Taken Part In Fashion Parade






                     Madam Sylvia Anyangwa Mbu is Child Protection in Emergency Coordinator-Plan International.






                                  Beautiful Works Of  Arts  Produced By The Children.




Eating Competition.


Celebrating The International Day Of The Girl Child With Beautiful Dance Steeps. 




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