(Edinburgh Western)
(LD):...Scottish Love in Action is a
charity that has supported work with marginalised children in
developing countries over the past 20 years. It supports the work
of VOICE 4 Girls in Hyderabad, in India, which is the country that the UN calls
the most dangerous place in the world to be born a girl.
VOICE 4 Girls educates marginalised
adolescent girls about their bodies, their health and their
rights. The organisation empowers girls to stay in education,
empowers them to not get married under age and teaches them that
they have the right to a life that is free from violence and
abuse. That, in turn, gives them the voice to speak up for their
rights, and they usually go on to speak up not just for
themselves, but for their sisters, their friends and their
mothers.
Although Scottish Love in Action and
VOICE 4 Girls support girls, they also support boys. It is
critical to acknowledge that in order to improve the position of
girls and women, it is necessary to educate the boys around them
to stop the perpetuation of gender inequality in our schools and
to address its existence in our society at large. Initiatives to
promote gender equality in and through schools are imperative not
just in India, but here, too, because gender disparity
is not limited to other countries or to other cultures...
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