Education Cannot Wait #AfghanGirlsVoices Campaign Launch + Press Release on 2-year Anniversary of Afghanistan Takeover & Girls‘ Education Ban

[Anouk Desgroseilliers]

Dear Strategic Comms Colleagues,  

Tuesday, 15 August marks the second anniversary of the de facto authorities takeover in Afghanistan, followed on 18 September by the unacceptable ban on secondary school girls’ education.

 

To mark these tragic anniversaries, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the UN global fund for education in emergencies & protracted crises - will launch a compelling #AfghanGirlsVoices campaign on 15 August (through to 18 September), to lift the voices of young Afghan girls denied their inherent human right to education. Please find attached the ECW press release, strictly embargoed for 15 August.

 

The inspiring and heartbreaking testimonies in the #AfghanGirlsVoices campaign are conveyed with moving images by a young Afghan female artist (examples below). The campaign was developed with ECW Global Champion Somaya Faruqi, former Captain of the Afghan Girls’ Robotic Team, who was forced to flee Afghanistan after the takeover. Please find attached Somaya’s story: Two Years, Too Long.

 

We hope you can also amplify the #AfghanGirlsVoices social media campaign through your social media channels. We believe your followers will be moved and will help lift #AfghanGirlsVoices globally by supporting this compelling campaign. 

 

Please find attached and below:

• ECW Press Release (embargo: 15 Aug) announcing the campaign launch by UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of ECW’s High-Level Steering Group, The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown; ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif; ECW Global Champion Somaya Faruqi
• #AfghanGirlsVoices social media kit to promote the campaign across your social media channels: #AfghanGirlsVoices
• A feature article on ECW Global Champion Somaya Faruqi (Two Years, Two Long)

 

ECW has been supporting nonformal, community-based education across Afghanistan since 2017. Working with partners, ECW supports 250,000 children and adolescents across some of the most remote and underserved areas of the country, half of whom are girls. Many thanks for your continued inspiring leadership and support!

Kent

 

Kent Page 

Chief, Advocacy/Communications | Education Cannot Wait

Email: kp...@unicef.org    Mobile: +1 (917) 302-1735    Follow: @KentPage

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