Break the bias to help girls into education and opportunity

How do we break down the barriers that girls and women face every day? That was the theme of a special Theirworld Instagram Live event on International Women’s Day.

Hosted by author and journalist Lorraine Candy, it featured the powerful voices of Theirworld Chair Sarah Brown, Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif and Kashvi Chandok, a Global Youth Ambassador for Theirworld.They discussed the gender obstacles that girls face in accessing education - challenges only made worse by the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis. Passionate arguments were made for urgent action, bold leadership and the need to teach boys about gender equality from a very early age.

Find out more and watch the event here.

Read, listen and be inspired

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, we asked our network of Global Youth Ambassadors and our Chair, Sarah Brown, to recommend empowering books and podcasts that inspire them to #BreakTheBias.

See their choices.

Theirworld’s 20th Anniversary and fundraising

If you saw our Instagram Live on IWD you may have seen us promoting a new fundraising initiative. In honour of our 20th birthday, two of Theirworld’s Advisory Board members have generously curated a special Beauty Box with donations from a number of amazing brands.

The box contains a selection of beauty and wellbeing gifts valued at over £500 (RRP) and is available in the UK to buy for £195 with all proceeds going to Theirworld.

Our fundraising team has also announced a number of challenge events for UK fundraisers. Theirworld has places in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival as well as the Great North Run. If you're interested in joining us for these iconic running events, sign-up on the Theirworld website.

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The Their News team