Today is an important day!!
Perhaps you didn’t know it was today…perhaps you didn’t really even care.
But…
There is a movement out there that I believe we should all be a part of…it is the movement to ensure all girls around the world have access to education and employment! That girls from whatever corner of the earth is treated with the same equality that boys her age receive. This movement must grow and enter every corner of the world. We must push this movement and ensure that regardless of race, ideology and culture ALL girls & women are treated with equality, freedom and fairness.
This is not the case in many places of our world. 
Almost all religions are guilty of suppressing female – some are still in the ideological dark ages where women are treated as property. This cannot continue! We must fight against such ideologies with education and compassion! We must stand up for those girls in our world who still have no voice in their culture. If we truly believe that all people matter, and all are equal – we cannot rest until all girls have the freedom to grow up to be whatever they want to be and are not restrained by archaic religious practices and teachings bent of controlling those they teach.
I have a daughter, she is the light of my life, and she has access to education – and I hope, with her parent’s help, we will give her every opportunity to succeed in life and she can aspire to be whoever she wants to be…but I also know that there are millions of girls like my daughter out there in the world today who will never have these same opportunities that she has. And these girls will have these amazing dreams to be and do something, but the society that they live in will prohibit their dreams and limit their access to the resources they will need to succeed.
I am just one father, one parent – but I stand with this International Day of Girls because I know that we can make a difference for ALL. It may take years, but we mustn’t give up. We mustn’t quit on those who are currently voiceless and without choices in life.
I believe in a God who created both Male and Females to live equally together in this world. I believe we must empower this generation of girls to dream big and live it out until those dreams become a reality. I also believe that if we work together, and if we persevere, we will better the lives of girls all around the world!
Let’s turn dreams into realities!
Something more to ponder today!
More reading on this topic check out these links:
How are you making a difference?
Day of the Girl – US
International Day of the Girl – U.N.
Fighting Human Trafficking -SA
Pastor's Ponderings 
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