Learn how countries around the world are thinking outside the box – creating innovative programmes, media campaigns and more to solve the problem of girls’ unequal access to education.

Child labour rates in Niger reach as high as 43 per cent. Hadiza, like thousands of other young girls, did not have access to school and had to work at age 12 as a maid to take care of her blind grandmother and her little brother.

At 15 years old, Barira was married by her parents to an abusive husband. Early marriage remains an issue for girls in Niger - according to UNICEF, one out of three girls are married before age 15.

In the Niger, UNICEF has been promoting child-friendly and girl-friendly schools that aim to bring in more and more girls to school.

Watch Nicole, 9, teach her peer Miguel about the importance of vaccinations. Nicole is part of Brazil's Super Child Health Agent programme, which empowers children with the necessary knowledge to help ensure that both they and their peers stay healthy.

Souad Sulaiman, herself a Syrian refugee, volunteers for a UNICEF programme helping newborn babies in Kawergosk refugee camp, Iraq.

A scholarship programme in the Niger's Maradi and Zinder regions is helping girls write their own destinies.

Melissa Kasoke, 14, uses her voice to advocate for children, especially girls, to get back to school in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow talks about her personal experience with polio.

Learn more about the launch ceremony of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA), the first global interfaith initiative to promote safe water, sanitation and hygiene. In 2011, some 768 million people still used unsafe drinking water sources.