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The Girl Effect Need a last-minute gift idea? Check out BRAC's new site where you can truly make an impact this holiday.
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The Girl Effect We want to hear from you! Hundreds of you are living in Africa and India; thousands of you are teen girls. What do you think gets in the way of girls going to school? Of course, we want to read everyone’s comments – you don’t have to be a teen or from India or Africa to chime in. Why aren’t girls in the developing world – or developed world – going to school?
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So you saw the Girl Effect on Oprah last week – but did you catch what Nick Kristof had to say about what you can do, today?
He has two suggestions: keep a girl in school and help mothers get the care they need.
We couldn’t agree more: just an extra year of secondary school will increase a girl’s future income by 15 to ...25 percent. And when we talk about mothers, we’re talking about girls. In Latin American and Caribbean nations and Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly half of births are to adolescents.
So check out what Kristof has to say in the video message.
To learn more about the realities girls face, visit http://www.halftheskymovement.org/
And check out the ways you can make a difference: http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/o
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Author Nicholas Kristof enourages you to make a difference in the lives of others.
The Girl Effect the Girl Effect video aired on the Oprah Show!
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George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Demi Moore and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are joining Pulitzer Prize winners to open our eyes. Find out what you can do to help millions of girls and women around the world.
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Ellie is 12. She’s raised nearly $1,300 for girls’ education in Ethiopia. And she plans to give 10% of her Bat Mitzvah gift money as well. Why?
Ellie knew she wanted to focus her community service project for her Bat Mitzvah on helping girls and women. Thanks to her dad, she found out about Global Giving. So she searc...hed the site and chose ‘Educational Support for 1,200 Girls in Ethiopia’ organized by Pathfinder.
“I love school and I feel that everyone should get a chance to be educated,” Ellie said.
Donate to the program Ellie is supporting: http://www.globalgiving.com/projects/sup
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This program will provide educational opportunities through four years of high school for Ethiopian girls who otherwise would not have the opportunity to complete school.
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Jonathon Prince runs to inspire change in the world.
He’s run across North America twice, and in October, he left for his third trek. This time, one of the causes he’s chosen to raise funds for is the Girl Effect. He’s hoping to raise more than $120,000.
Jonathon and his team plan to reach Washington, D.C., by March, ...stopping in communities along the way to motivate and inspire others. He was recently in Phoenix – watch his interview with FOX here: http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/morning_
Supporters can donate to the specific causes/organizations he’s raising funds for on his website: www.hopeordie.org. All funds that aren’t specified will be divided evenly among the beneficiaries.
Fans can follow Jonathon on his blog at www.hopeordie.org and on his Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jonathon-P
Go Jonathon go!
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In rural Guatemala, where nearly half the population is Mayan Indian, girls typically end their education early and get married soon thereafter. The pattern contributes to deep poverty. But girls clubs are making a difference by helping girls to stay in school.
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Imagine being a 15-year-old girl wanting an education but needing a means to pay for it – eventually finding a solution in a business venture that 40 year-old men typically pursued. Then imagine staging a hunger strike to avoid childhood marriage.
Not a typical scenario. But then again, Anita is not a typical girl.
A...nita is from a small village in the Bihar state of India, where only one in six girls is literate. Household duties, childhood marriage and early motherhood often take precedence over education for many girls – but not for Anita. [shown in the video]
She wanted to go to school, but her parents couldn’t afford the fees, so Anita tutored other students to pay for her education. Knowing that she would need more money for college, she enrolled in a government training class to become a beekeeper at the age of 15 – something 40 year-old men typically did.
From there, Anita started her own beekeeping operation, all while staying in school and tending to her household duties. She used the money from her bee business to pay for her and her brother’s education and provide for their family.
Anita’s drive didn’t stop there though. When her parents decided it was time for her to marry – and discontinue schooling – Anita staged a hunger strike in protest. And her antics worked. Her parents eventually agreed to delay marriage and let her stay in school if she ate.
Today, Anita is in college and continues to run a successful beekeeping business. And she remains unmarried.
Thanks to Going to School in India (www.goingtoschool.com), Anita’s story is being shared with girls around the world, inspiring them to follow their goals.
Share Anita and other girls’ stories through Going to School’s store: http://goingtoschool.com/store.html.
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Girl Stars was created by Going to School, a non-profit media trust based in New Delhi, India. For more, log on to our website -- www.goingtoschool.com "I like beekeeping; I can run a business, earn money ...
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Students at Redwood High School are starting the girl effect.
Last summer, Ashley watched the Girl Effect video [watch it here http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?
So they researched the girl effect. They brainstormed ideas. And then they got to work – they would start a school club that would focus on fundraising and spreading awareness about conditions in the developing world.
Today, the Redwood High School Girl Effect Club meets every Tuesday during lunch, typically drawing 20+ boys and girls. It holds bake sales at soccer games, recently put on a garage sale, and has plans for a movie night and dinner-speaker event to raise funds and awareness. The club also has its own Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15
What’s the goal? Co-founders Ashley and Amy aim to raise $5,000 by the end of the school year, attract underclassman to the club, and, above all else, motivate other students to get involved in the movement.
The Redwood High School club is doing what it can to start the girl effect. What can you do? Spread the word, share the video, invite others to join: www.girleffect.org.
And don’t forget to post what you’re doing right here on Facebook.
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Juthika knows all about the girl effect – she is the girl effect.
The oldest of three children, Juthika and her family live in a small village in Bangladesh. Her father was unable to work, and her mother struggled to make ends meet. So Juthika took matters into her own hands.
At the age of 13, Juthika joined the Ba...ngladesh Rural Advancement Committee’s (BRAC) ELA program (brac.net). Through BRAC, she learned how to grow vegetables and raise livestock. She also learned about the dangers of childhood marriage and pregnancy as well as the strain dowries put on families.
Today, Juthika helps her mother support their family. She raises ducks, maintains a vegetable garden, tutors schoolboys, and embroiders handkerchiefs. She is continuing her schooling and is paying for her siblings’ education as well. Juthika still attends BRAC ELA and is speaking out about dowries and childhood marriage.
Juthika is the girl effect.
Support girls like her through BRAC’s programs: http://www.brac.net/index.php?nid=64
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Empowered by Tostan (tostan.org), 14 villages in northern Somalia recently united to abandon female genital cutting (FGC).
Tostan continues to show that change is possible. It is one of the many organizations around the world working to unleash the girl effect.
The NGO based in Senegal works with African communities t...o create sustainable change rooted in human rights. Having supported more than 4,000 communities, the key to Tostan’s success is including everyone in the equation – girls, women, boys, men, different ethnic and religious groups, etc.
“Tostan's model works by including rather than dividing, and by fostering respectful dialog and debate around the ways in which to reach community-identified goals,” said Gannon Gillespie, Tostan’s Director of US Operations. “The challenges facing communities affect everyone, and the solutions too must involve everyone.”
And involving everyone is exactly what Tostan does through interactive human rights education.
Fresh off the Somalia announcement, Tostan is planning another public declaration for the abandonment of FGC in Somaliland next month.
Get involved – support Tostan’s work here: http://www.tostan.org/web/page/549/secti
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GAROWE, PUNTLAND, SOMALIA October 5, 2009 — 14 villages in the Northeast Zone of Somalia – Puntland – made history on Monday as they became the first group of communities in the region to collectively pledge to abandon the practice of female genital cutting (FGC). ...
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For more than 600 years, the god-king of Tibet has been a man. But the 14th Dalai Lama -- Tenzin Gyatso -- said it need not always be so.
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The Girl Effect Inspires Action
Featuring the work of seven young female artists, a special “Girl Effect” art exhibit by Lombard-Freid in New York is rooted in the notion that young girls are powerful agents for social change. Ten percent of all sales are being donated to the Girl Effect Fund.
Find out more about the e...xhibit here: http://www.lombard-freid.com
You can donate to this fundraiser or start your own for the Girl Effect Fund here: www.globalgiving.com/girleffect
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