Locally, the United Children's Network (UCN) is committed to impacting youth in junior high school to lead productive and balanced lifestyles.A broad range of programs, spanning from providing sessions designed to help youth to connect with each other with the aim of youth involvement in their community.Our programs are aimed to educate peers on responsible living and balance, including the consequences of drinking, drug use and other risky behaviors that are harmful to youth well-being.We would like to help ensure that all students at affected schools are able to read, write, and perform other basic academic skills at their grade level.If a student is very much behind, we intend to provide a direct one-on-one relationship with an older student.When the students have completed their homework, we will provide recreational activities, art classes, ballet, drama, or other relatively inexpensive activities to which they would likely not otherwise have access.For the students who participate as tutors, we hope to develop a sense of community involvement at an early age, and encourage longer term socially responsible behavior.There are too many high school students who are behind in their academic studies and are at high risk for dropping out of school entirely. We believe that many unhealthy behaviors - teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, a lack of deference to the law - occur at least in part due to the academic challenges these students are facing. We hope that by reducing the academic difficulties of these students at an early age, we can reduce the number of teenagers later engaging in unhealthy activities.Internationally, the mission of the UCN is to bring women in the under developed countries information and services necessary for making decisions about their reproduction and health. Our approach is to strengthen the technical and financial capacity of local organizations in developing countries to provide reproductive health services and ensure reproductive rights. All of the projects we support will include components to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. The only way to fight the poverty and hunger is by empowering women to control their own bodies and the reproductive rights. Whether or not women are literate, they are more than motivated to regulate birth - for their own survival and their family's health.A woman dies every minute due to complications from pregnancy and child birth. Women and girls are targets of atrocities such as infanticide, sex trafficking, rape and domestic violence.We lose six million humans every year just because they are females.There are more enslaved peple now than there were during the 1800s. About 27 million people live in slavery. Every year, about 800,000 people are trafficked internationally and approximately 80% of them are women and children.