Yulya Brezina (Luniniec, Brest Oblast), Dasha Bolt (agrotown Navasiolki, Pastavy District) and Lena Ivanova (village of Baraŭliany, Minsk District) are the heroines of the UNFPA project "Ten-Year-Old Girls - the Generation of Sustainable Development Goals 2030".

Yulya represents the challenges that adolescent girls with disabilities face, Dasha is a teenage girl living in a rural area, Lena is a representative of the Romani community. All heroines attend school, they all have their dreams and are willing to work. When she grows up Yulya wants to help children with disabilities, Dasha wants to become an interpreter, and Lena wants to be a psychologist.

You can watch interviews with the teenage girls at the UNFPA website in the coming days, and during the presentation of the State of World Population Report and an Interactive Annex to it on October 20, 2016.

The project is implemented by the UN Population Fund at the international and regional level. UNFPA Belarus is one of the country offices in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region participating in the project.

UNFPA country offices are to interview 10-year-old teenage girls to learn what does and what might prevent them from stepping closer to their dream in 14 years’ time (2016 - 2030). The essence of the project is to show the whole range of challenges that 10-year-old girls face around the world.

Each UNFPA country office will again meet the heroines of the project 14 years later to film new video interviews and see whether they have managed to fulfill their plans and what has changed in their life. New stories will help to assess the progress towards Sustainable Development Goals in terms of the well-being of adolescent girls and fulfillment of their potential in each of the countries.

The project is an integral part of the State of World Population Report compiled annually by UNFPA. The 2015 Report described the state of women in the context of humanitarian crises and instability and analysed the effectiveness of humanitarian aid for women and girls.