On this United Nations International Day of the Girl Child, themed The Girl I Am, The Change I Lead, we celebrate girls’ courage to transform crises into change, and reaffirm the Wellbeing Foundation Africa’s commitment to ensuring that every girl in every classroom and community has the tools, voice, and dignity to fulfil her potential.

Across Nigeria, our International Day of the Girl Child activations have marked the Day through purposeful school and community engagements advancing confidence, leadership, and health education among adolescent girls. These initiatives continue to strengthen our commitment to fostering equitable opportunities for girls to learn, lead, and thrive.

Through our Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programming across schools, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa equips girls and boys as He For She allies with life-saving knowledge, from health and hygiene to self-leadership and confidence, through our participatory Skills and Drills curriculum.

These actions are anchored in our Women, Girls and Gender Development Targets Strategy, guided by the Girl Declaration, the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council’s Recommendations, and the Nairobi Statement on ICPD25, safeguarding the amplification of women’s and girls’ voices across every policy, partnership, and programme.

To round up our nationwide International Day of the Girl Child commemorations, we joined partners She Forum Africa, Pathfinder International, the Embassy of Finland in Abuja, and Youth Space Africa for the International Day of the Girl Child 2025 Adolescents’ Town Hall and Mentorship Day, honouring resilience and leadership through dialogue, mentorship, and menstrual-health education.

As the new Girl Goals: What Has Changed for Girls? report by UNICEF, UN Women and Plan International reminds us, 122 million girls remain out of school worldwide, a call to action for all of us to make certain that girls’ rights are realised not in promise, but in practice.

 

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