The Center for Girls was founded on April 15, 1998, on the initiative of two volunteers of SOS Helpline for Women and Children Victims of Violence. The aim of its foundation was to improve the social position of young women through their education and emancipation.
THE MISSION of the Center for Girls is to empower children, girls and women through support, education, activism and creativity.
Over 1,000 people saw the dance performed by the activists of the Center for Girls and members of the Dance club Primavera and Dance Club Illusion Dance Community to the song "Break The Chain" in Obrenovićeva Street in the center of Niš and, together with people all around the world, sent a message that violence against girls and women must stop.
In more than 150 countries in the world, on February 14, the performance "Vagina's Monologues" is traditionally read, which the activists of the Center for Girls performed for the 14th time this year. Twenty-one activist of the Center for Girls participated in the performance, the youngest of whom is 14 and the oldest 49, and the performance was performed in front of about forty people on the stage of the Student Cultural Center.
Gynecologist Merima Atanasković held interactive lectures for around 70 students of "Car Konstantin" Elementary School.