A DAY OF LOVE

Valentine’s day is a day of love, not just the love you share with your significant other, but with everyone. Show all the children in need that you care.

All children deserve to be loved.

LIFE WITHOUT LOVE

Love is a special thing. Between girlfriends and boyfriends, wives and husbands, parents and children.

But so many relationships are devoid of love. Child marriage remains an issue in our modern day and age, with many girls getting married before the age of 18, and many even younger. Hunger and poverty leaves families struggling, preventing them from sending their daughters to school, forcing them to offer their daughters to richer men for marriage.

CHILD MARRIAGE STATISTICS

Globally, around 21% of young women were married before their 18th birthday

650 million girls and women alive today were married as children

47% of girls in India are married before the age of 18

In Kenya, almost 1 in 4 girls is married before the age of 18, and 1 in 20 before the age of 15

This Valentine’s day, appreciate the love you have and offer a gift of hope to the girls in need. For lack of education, they may believe child marriage is part of their destiny, but a chance to study will be an invisible defender of their childhood.

Donate to ‘Friends of UNICEF’ Monthly Donation Programme to support the construction of education centers and schools. Through this, girls will have more opportunities to go to school even if their families are unable to afford it, and parents will not be forced to marry them off to richer men just to survive. If progress does not accelerate, more than 150 million more girls will marry before their 18th birthday by 2030. Don’t take your love for granted. Help us support the girls who deserve a choice. A choice to love, a choice to live. 

UNICEF’S FUTURE AND STRATEGY

In 2018, a total of 12 million children were reached with education support, and over the last 3 years, UNICEF has helped over 34 million out-of-school children gain access to educational programmes.

 
 

A FLOWER FOR THE ONE YOU LOVE

SOME HOPE FOR THE CHILDREN

 

Donating to UNICEF monthly for their future! People say money can’t buy happiness, but it can if you gift it.