Eco Cares Welfare Foundation And Childhood Bridge International Initiative Celebrates “The International Day of the Girl Child 2015”

 On December 19, 2011, United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world. Girls face discrimination and violence every day across the world. The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights. 


Around the world, millions of girls face barriers to education that boys do not. And yet, when you educate a girl you can break cycles of poverty in just one generation. 

This year’s theme focuses on adolescent girls and the Sustainable Development Goals, which set a range of international targets, including on gender equality, to be achieved by 2030.

As a particularly vulnerable demographic, adolescent girls face social, economic and political barriers. While they hold the potential to become leaders and effect change, their empowerment can be hindered by factors such as unwanted pregnancy, forced early marriage, gender-based violence and limited access to higher education and reproductive health services.

Eco Cares Welfare Foundation in conjunction with Childhood Bridge International Initiative also marked this year’s International Day of the Girl Child by organizing a seminar for female students from SS2 and SS3 drawn from selected schools in Abuja and its environs and present were students from Command Day Secondary School, Lungi Barracks, Abuja, Abuja Capital International College, Gwarimpa, Abuja and Kingsville College, Jahi, Abuja and it held at Maitama Amusement Park, Maitama, Abuja.

Resource persons from diverse fields were present also to lecture the students on topics such as Health and Personal Hygiene, Vision and Purpose, Finance/Saving, Career Choices and Entrepreneurship. The students were excited by the opportunity given to listen to adults with so much experience in life and also being able to ask questions and gift packs and certificates were also given to the students for memorial purposes.

Ms. Ene Cynthia Ogbe and Mrs Caroline Bolanle Aliyu, Founders of Eco Cares Welfare Foundation and Childhood Bridge International Initiative respectively in their different speeches emphasized the need for more awareness to the plights of adolescents girls and girls in general and also called on stake holders to make it a point of duty to carry out these awareness.