Announcement: WFWPI Sponsoring Day 6 of 11 Days of Action!

The 11 Days of Action is a social media campaign organized by the NGO Working Group on Girls (WGG). Starting on October 1 of each year, the campaign engages the international community in a global conversation on girls for 11 days and culminates with an event commemorating the UN International Day of the Girl on October 11. Each day of the campaign has its own theme and is sponsored by a different organization.

For the second year in a row, WFWPI will be leading the conversation for October 6 on the theme of education of girls and we invite you to engage in this conversation with us!

HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED IN THIS CAMPAIGN:

Each day provides an opportunity for you to join a conversation on social media platforms over a new theme. All conversations will take place on the official WGG Day of the Girl social media platforms, which you can access here: Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. 

To get specific instructions on how each day's conversation will take place, please click here.

For WFWPI's day, October 6, on education of girls, our main conversation will take place on the WGG Day of the Girl Twitter channel, from 11am - 12pm EST. Over the course of that hour, the moderator of the conversation will be posting a series of 7 questions that our office developed and submitted to them.

Listed below are the days with their themes in bold:

October 1 –Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd will discuss gender-based violence.
October 2 – The Loretto Community, Society of the Sacred Heart, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Dominican Leadership Conference, and the Company of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul will discuss the effect of COVID-19 on girls.
October 3 – NGO CSW will discuss racial equality.
October 4 – UN Women will discuss girls in conflict and post-conflict settings.
October 5 – Global G.L.O.W. will discuss period poverty.
October 6 – Women’s Federation for World Peace, Intl. will discuss girls’ education.
October 7 – Alice Paul Institute and Bella Abzug Leadership Institute will discuss climate change in relation to global girls’ experiences.
October 8 – Girl Scouts will highlight girl activists changing the world.
October 9 – Coalition for Adolescent Girls will discuss gender equity.
October 10 – Caucus of Women and Girls of African Descent, JC Flowers Foundation,Circles of Support will discuss girls facing poverty. 
October 11 – Collective Day to highlight the 2020 Girls Speak Out event!