The Coalition for Adolescent girls

 

     Adolescent girls in lower income countries are usually victims of rape, violence, pregnancy, HIV, bad health, and much more.  The ages of these adolescent girls range from the ages between 10 years to 19 years old. These girls are usually married before they even reach the age of 18. The men they marry, are much older than the girls.  They get pregnant when they are young, and have no idea how to tend to their newborn baby. The newborn baby usually does not make it passed the age of one. The girls also get an STD from their own husband.

      The Coalition for adolescent girls would like to help these adolescent girls become more educated about different areas in life such as, their school level of education, health education, and etc. They would like to achieve the highest they can with them. This foundation would like to make finishing secondary school, a girl’s first and main priority. Preventing more girls from getting affected by HIV is also a high priority. This foundation tries to help these adolescent girls prepare for the future. The future they try to help them prepare for, is them possibly going to school, knowing and becoming aware about sexually transmitted diseases, becoming a mother, and nourishing their baby.

      In most of these countries women are not equal to men. The men basically over power these women when it comes to jobs, education, violence, and so fourth. The men use violence and rape as an act towards women. From these actions, the women are severely hurt, sometimes get pregnant, and get diseases. This program would like to speak for the women, and eliminate all such horrible acts on women, and also eliminate the marriage of girls under the age of 18.

      The marriages of young girls in Ethiopia have been dramatically delayed due to, schooling support, vocational training, and safe places. It would cost a dollar per day for programs and policies like, community and school based efforts, interventions, and health services in low-income countries. For health services to work for girls in the Kiber clinic, they must show consideration and classified services, and be suitable. In developing countries, most receive demand-side financing. Demand- financing pays patience for HIV, TB, and to receiving health services. This organization was united with 30 international organizations. The Coalition for adolescent girls was founded in 2005 by, Nike foundation, and by the United Nations foundation.

      The Coalition for adolescent girls website offers a lot of information about the organization. You can learn why it is so important to support an adolescent girl and to help her as much as you can through her rough time in a low-income country. You can read about a girl’s real life story in poverty. Also, you can read articles that are very informative of the goals and how they feel about these adolescent girls, and what should be done. You can connect with the Coalition for adolescent girls by email, their websites, reports, and articles. You can get involved with this organization, by signing up, and putting in your email.

“Building Peace” -Central Asia Institute

This video was very inspirational. It opened up my eyes by seeing what really goes on in other countries, and how grateful I am to live in the United States. The women in this video are not really treated equal to man like how the women are in the United States. These women are not that well educated. Most of their education level is equal to a fifth grader. The men want the women to know basic knowledge such as, they shouldn’t overpopulate with babies, and that they should know the basic health standards. These women eventually learn how to sew, and are able to make clothes and such, to help support their family.

“An enemy is a person whose story we have not heard” -Gene Knudson Hoffman. Quaker Peace Activist

In my own opinion I believe that this quote means that there is two sides to every story.  Every person, every situation has its own story(s) to it. In life there is always one side of a story that gets left out. For example, when friends get into a fight over something they heard about the other, that friend usually has just heard one side of the story, and not the other. Most people do only hear half of a story, and not hearing the other half, which could be important. When you only hear one side, it could cause some issues among whatever the problem is.