Give a Baby Shower Gift
What is the Baby Shower Gift Program?
Every day in China, the words "it's a girl" are received with sadness and disappointment, leading many Chinese couples to commit gendercide: the act of eliminating girls by pre-natal sex selection, infanticide, abandonment and trafficking.
Every day in China, the words "it's a girl" are received with sadness and disappointment, leading many Chinese couples to commit gendercide: the act of eliminating girls by pre-natal sex selection, infanticide, abandonment and trafficking.
Community and family pressure to have a son, paired with China's One-Child Policy, form a lethal combination. For every 6 boys born in China, only 5 girls survive. Cumulatively, this has led to an excess of 37 million men in China. Girls are twice as likely to die in their first year of life than boys.
The Baby Shower Gift is bringing life, value and dignity to baby girls in China by showing their families that girls have value. Pregnant couples who enroll in this program receive a monthly stipend to support their baby girl through the first year of her life. All Girls Allowed workers keep families accountable to ensure that the stipend is used for the baby's nutrition, clothing, and shelter.
The Baby Shower Gift is bringing life, value and dignity to baby girls in China by showing their families that girls have value. Pregnant couples who enroll in this program receive a monthly stipend to support their baby girl through the first year of her life. All Girls Allowed workers keep families accountable to ensure that the stipend is used for the baby's nutrition, clothing, and shelter.
Profile of a Mother: Shen Hongmei
Although the birth of a girl didn't please her father-in-law, Shen Hongmei was still happy. Not only did she receive the monthly assistance from the Baby Shower Gift program, envy and talk of fellow villagers gave her encouragement.
Success!
After just one year of working in China's most unbalanced villages, we have seen gender ratios (girls to boys at birth) become normal. Families are keeping girls. Some families who enrolled in the program say that their neighbors are jealous of them for having girls. And we recently discovered a long academic paper from a Harvard University professor that says financial stipends are the best way to end gendercide in Asia. Looks like this program is on the right track!
