About the event: Run for a Girl Child is an initiative by BeeOrganized,

BeeOrganized is organizing a Run to raise funds for supporting Swanthana orphan girls on the 10th December 2017 at HSR Layout ground. The program is designed to raise funds for 50 girls for the year 2018.

If you think why we should care, then please read few compelling statistics of children in India. Here is the source.

• 13,40,000 children below 5 die in a year, that is 3,671 under 5 child deaths per day
• Nearly half of all child deaths under 5 in India are attributed to under nutrition
• 1 in every 11 children in India is working, when they should be at school
• More than half (56%) of the under 5 deaths occur within the first 28 days of life, we work to prevent these lives
• India accounts for more than 3 out of 10 stunted children in the world
• 47% of the women in India are married when they are a child (before the age of 18), and 30% bear a child when they are a child (adolescent mothers)
• 17.7 million children and adolescents are out of school in India, this is 14% of world’s population of children out of school
• 20% of grade 2 children in India cannot recognize numbers 1-9; 53% of children drop out of school at elementary level
• 49.5% of grade 5 children cannot do subtraction and 55% of grade 8 children cannot solve 3 digits by 1 digit division problem; 51.09% of grade 5 children cannot read grade 2 English and 25.4% children of grade 8 cannot read grade 2 text.

 

More Details about run for a girl child event:

• BIB distribution from 6:00 AM on the day of the event.
• Warm-Up Session from 6:15 AM – 6:40 AM.
• Run starts sharp at 6:45 AM.
• Route Map will be sent to your email id a day before the event. 

 

Run for a girl child event Includes: 

• Timing information.
• T-shirts
• Finisher Medals
• Certificates
• Awards for winners
• Refreshments

For more details of the run for a girl child events please click here. If you want to donate to Swanthana please click here.