Every day, girls are forced to sacrifice their futures — to poverty, hunger, violence and a critical lack of health care. You can help protect every girl’s rights and safety by signing up to run, jog or walk at the Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon.
Join Team Plan Ireland for the 2026 Vhi Dublin Women’s Mini Marathon taking place on Sunday, 31st of May 2026 and show you support for girls’ rights worldwide.
This is one of our most popular events and tickets are sure to go fast so get in early to secure your place and start your fundraising. Join the hundreds of women and girls who come together in blue to support a better future for EVERY girl.
Once you have registered by purchasing your ticket via our website, your fundraising can begin. Get started by setting up your own online fundraising page on our Team Plan Ireland Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon campaign page at the link below.
Poverty, violence and discrimination still hold back millions of children. And in this unequal world, it’s often girls that are the most affected. Just for being girls. Denied the chance to go to school. To make decisions about their lives. To achieve their dreams.
It’s not fair, and it’s not right. Our mission is to change this.
We are Plan International Ireland, a global children’s charity striving for an equal world. One where every child can reach their full potential and every girl can choose her own future.
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130 million girls around the world today are out of school. There are many barriers to girls’ education globally: poverty, child marriage, sexual exploitation, FGM, period poverty, disability and stigma are just some of them. Lockdowns and school closures due to COVID-19 have hit girls’ education particularly hard and threaten to roll back years of progress.
We believe that girls’ education leads to girls’ equality. Education is critical in tackling harmful gender norms, and empowering girls to drive change. It gives girls the skills to become leaders, innovators and change makers, and to tackle future crises.
Every 3 seconds, a girl is forced to marry. If we don’t act now, more than 150 million girls will become child brides by 2030.
Girls married before the age of 18 are more likely to experience physical, sexual and domestic violence. They become isolated with their freedom curtailed and are much less likely to stay in school.
We work to empower girls to claim their rights and continue their education. We challenge deeply rooted gender inequalities and social norms and are ensuring that girls are involved in the process.