00:00So I wanted to jump on today and talk about a very special day. Today October 11 is the
00:07International Day of the Girl Child and of course the day has come to my attention because I'm the
00:13proud mum of a girl. So the International Day of the Girl Child was started by the United Nations
00:19General Assembly and it's to recognise and acknowledge the rights of the girl and also
00:24the unique challenges faced by girls all around the world and this year's theme is the girl I am
00:32the change I lead and that really struck a chord in me too because my beautiful daughter I see what
00:39she does at school and thankfully we live in a country where girls are encouraged to you know
00:46really come into their own in terms of leadership and reaching their potential but the reason this
00:52day especially came to my attention is because I saw it on the Today Show and they had a journalist
00:58called Melissa Doyle who was a breakfast tv host for their rival actually Channel 7's Sunrise
01:05and she is raising awareness for this day in conjunction with World Vision and they're really
01:13wanting to raise awareness for like I said the day does acknowledge the rights of a girl and the
01:20unique challenges faced by girls and they're raising awareness for the unique challenges faced by girls
01:25in developing countries and some of the statistics were really quite shocking like especially with
01:31education like in some of those developing countries I think the stats were that only about 50 percent of
01:38girls are even finishing primary school so can you imagine what sort of then how that impacts the choices
01:44that they have then for the rest of their life so um that's so she's raising a lot of awareness for that
01:51she's also calling for people if they're able to to sponsor a girl through World Vision because if you sponsor
01:58a girl you can actually make a huge difference to her life like you can ensure that she can finish school
02:04and then she's obviously got a lot of choices there for her life and what she would like to do
02:09so um look today i just you know and then because i found out about the day just through television that
02:17was just running in the background that's why i thought i'd jump on today october 11 is the international
02:23day of the girl child i really wanted to get on because i think and talk about it because i think if
02:29more people get on their social media um talk to other people about it we'll raise awareness for it
02:36and obviously as a parent i want my daughter to grow up in a world where she feels safe where she
02:43feels loved and supported and also where she can reach her full potential and that's really important
02:50for all parents um and obviously it's important for every child but today october 11 we're really
02:57focusing on the international day of the girl child so spread the word try spread awareness if you like
03:04and thank you for listening thank you for tuning in and get on the world vision website too um and
03:09you'll find a lot more information about sponsoring a girl through their through their program
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