International humanitarian organization operating in Vietnam, Plan International will offer more support to Vietnamese girls via program “Because I am a girl” between now and 2016 through financing education.

Under the five-year program, the organization will coordinate with local authorities to encourage Vietnamese girls, especially those in the mountainous and urban areas, to get involved in making decisions. The agency will also further finance education from pre-school to secondary degree.

The program also aims at reducing the number of girls getting marriage at early ages as well as factors that can make negative physical and spiritual impacts on female juveniles while attending schools.

The program was launched on the occasion of the “ Girls’ International Day” by the General Assembly of the United Nations in October last year, said Glenn Gibney, general director of Plan International Vietnam at the launching ceremony of the program yesterday.