Girls' education campaigns

FIFA Women's World Cup 2003

Children play football at the launch of the FIFA-UNICEF alliance at the United Nations

FIFA, soccer’s international governing body and an established UNICEF partner, dedicated this year’s Women’s World Cup to Go Girls! Education for Every Child.

The international soccer tournament kicked off on September 20 and was played in various cities throughout the US. It began with 16 teams from around the world: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ghana, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the USA.

Germany and Sweden made it through to the final. And after a 1-1 full-time scoreline, Germany became the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup Champions by scoring a golden goal in extra time.

Go Girls! was seen and heard throughout the tournament and in a variety of ways – from stadium announcements and video screenings to match programmes and web pages.

FIFA has also donated more than 600 “sport-in-a-box” kits to support UNICEF programmes around the world. These kits which contain everything you need for a game of soccer will be used to encourage girls to attend school and to play sport. Read more...

And on October 11, Global Girls Football Day, UNICEF country offices and FIFA national associations around the world came together to mobilize efforts for girls’ education through the power of sport.

UNICEF and FIFA announced their direct alliance in 2001, and the following year FIFA dedicated the World Cup to UNICEF’s Say Yes for Children campaign. Nearly 95 million children and adults from around the world pledged their support during the campaign for the things all children need and should have. With education identified as the most important, Go Girls! is building on the efforts of Say Yes.

Español Français

Printer friendly

Tools to Share NEW

What's this?

What's this

Digg, Del.icio.us, and Newsvine are web services enabling you to share stories on the Internet.

The blog this article feature enables you to generate a short summary of this article, ready to be pasted in a blog post.

Digg and Newsvine are social news sites, where the top news stories are selected not by an editor but by its collective users. Explore Digg and Newsvine for yourself.

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website where you can tag and share your favourite web pages, rather than bookmarking them in the traditional way inside your web browser. Try out Del.icio.us

Blog this article

Post this article to your blog. The story’s headline, main picture and summary will be displayed on your page as in the preview below.
Writing the rest of the blog post will be up to you!

Click in the area below, then copy the code and paste it in your blog page:

<div class="unicef_embed headline">
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageImageOriginal = "http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/images/girlsedcampaign_football.jpg";
var pageTitleOriginal = "FIFA Women's World Cup 2003"
var pageBlurbOriginal = "";
var pageURLOriginal = "http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/campaign_fifa.html";
var pageURLTracking = "http://www.unicef.org/blogthis/girlseducation/campaign_fifa.html";
</script>
<a class="img" href="http://www.unicef.org"><IMG alt="UNICEF Image" src="http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/images/girlsedcampaign_football.jpg"></a>
<h2>
<a href="http://www.unicef.org">
<img src="http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/images/unicefSmallBlue.png" width="83" height="20" alt="UNICEF" />
</a>
</h2>
<h3 style="font-size:default!important;line-height:default!important;">
<script language="javascript">document.write("<a href=\""+ pageURLTracking.replace(/.html/,".rhtml") +"\" >");</script>
<!--<a href="http://www.unicef.org" >-->
<script language="javascript">document.write(pageTitleOriginal);</script>
</a>
</h3>
<p class="embed_teaser">
<script language="javascript">document.write(pageBlurbOriginal);</script>
</p>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
.unicef_embed {
background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;
border: 4px solid #0099ff;
border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;
margin: 10px 30px !important;
padding: 5px;
overflow: hidden !important;
zoom: 1;
}
.unicef_embed img {
   border: 0 !important;
}
.unicef_embed a {
   display: inline;
}
.unicef_embed a.img {
   float: left !important;
   margin: 0 5px 0 0 !important;
   width: 102px;
   display: block;
   overflow: hidden !important;
}
.unicef_embed a.img img {
   border: 1px solid #999999 !important;;
   width: 100px;;
   padding: 0 !important;;
}
.unicef_embed h2 {
   line-height: 2px;;
   clear: none;;
   margin: 0 !important;
   padding: 0 !important;
}
.unicef_embed h3 {
   line-height: 16px;
   font: bold 16px arial, sans-serif !important;
   margin: 3px 0 0 0 !important;
   padding: 0 !important;
}
.unicef_embed h3 a {
   line-height: 16px !important;;
   color: #0000ff !important;
   font: bold 16px arial, sans-serif !important;
   text-decoration: none !important;
   display: inline !important;;
   float: none !important;;
   text-transform: capitalize !important;
}
.unicef_embed h3 a:hover {
   text-decoration: underline !important;
   color: #df5e32 !important;
}
.unicef_embed p {
   color: #000 !important;;
   font: normal 11px/ 11px arial, sans-serif !important;;
   margin: 2px 0 0 0 !important;;
   padding: 0 !important;
}
.unicef_embed a {
   display: inline !important;;
   float: none !important;
}
</style>

Preview :

Donate now

Girls' education campaigns

FIFA Women's World Cup 2003

Tools to Share NEW

What's this

Blog this article

document.write("<a href=\""+ pageURLOriginal +"\" >"); document.write(pageTitleOriginal);