Welcome to the celebration of 7th World Population Day. As you know, every year we are celebrating this day with equal enthusiasm and a new theme. In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended celebrating World Population Day on 11th July with the objective to highlight the importance and urgency of population-related issues. As you all know that every year our NGO selects a theme based on population and try to create awareness about the same. So this year’s theme would be gender equality and protection of girlchild. Since our establishment, we have been fighting against female feticide. Girls are equally important as boys and perhaps even more because the entire humanity owes its existence to them and they help strike a social balance in our society. There was a great reduction in the number of women compared to men, till a few years ago. Due to an increase in crime rate against women such as dowry deaths, female feticide, rape, forced illiteracy, gender-based discrimination; etc women have always been suppressed. In order to equalize the boy-girl ratio, it is important that people start saving the girl child. Lack of education is one of the main reasons behind this ignorance. Women in today’s society are earning name and fame and bringing accolades to the nation at par with their male counterparts. Thus, saving a girl child becomes the need of the hour. Each child has the right to get an education and be self-reliant. Population control and wise family planning help couples to have an ideal number of children so that every child can get a fair upbringing and education. It is also important that women who want to avoid pregnancy are using effective and safe contraceptive measures. Some women don’t want to discuss these matters out of timidity and hesitation. We have female colleagues who work voluntarily for the development of such women.