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OUR MISSION
Girls for Girls, NGO strives to educate, empower, and provide opportunities to disadvantaged girls around the world.
We hope to galvanize youth to take action and effectuate change to global challenges and humanitarian crises. It is part of our mission to mobilize youth into facilitating and engaging in global discussions about women's rights, gender equality, girls empowerment, as well as other humanitarian crisis.
Our most formidable, indomitable power is our opportunity to pursue a quality education. We empower ourselves through it; our education is a critical lever in effectuating our own opportunities, in opening our own doors. In many parts of the world, however, access to a high quality education is seldom supported.
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In Gambia, Kids In Technology (KIT), NGO is working to provide resources that educate youth in a 'field of the future': technology and innovation. KIT is inspiring children to leverage their creative thinking skills to innovate technological solutions to everyday problems. Girls for Girls is teaming up with KIT to support this invaluable mission because building up a community requires cementing a strong foundation for the youth who want to see success and growth in their homeland.
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We are part of a turning point in history. The time to act is now! Please donate to support KIT through our website! 100% of the proceeds will be donated to KIT and used to promote the curiosity and ingenuity of a community of bright, young students.
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EDUCATION
GOAL #1: EDUCATE
In order to uplift women and develop stable societies as a hole, we need to educate women and girls. A woman is not only the leader of her home and the teacher of her children, but she is also the most influential component in establishing a successful and stable society.
"All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones."
- Melinda Gates
ADVOCACY
GOAL #2: ADVOCATE
Advocacy is a powerful tool that can be used to change the world. When people bring their voices together, they become an influential force that can impact change.
"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."
- Melinda Gates
SERVICE
GOAL #3: SERVE
From aiding your local community members to supporting innocent families suffering from global humanitarian crisis, you can always find ways to conduct community outreach and help those in need.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
OUR GOALS
OUR TEAM!
WHY GIRLS?
“Girls’ education is both an intrinsic right and a critical lever to reaching other development objectives.”
Inadequate legislation or discriminatory policies often inhibit girls’ equal access to quality education. Even though some laws have been established to protect girls’ rights to quality education, “too many girls are still shut out of school because they have to work, are married early, or have to care for younger siblings” which denies them their fundamental right to education.
Providing girls with an education helps break the cycle of poverty. Educated women are less likely to marry early and against their will, less likely to die in childbirth, and they are more likely to have healthy babies as well as send their children to school.
“ Adolescent girls that attend school delay marriage and childbearing, are less vulnerable to disease including HIV and AIDS, and acquire information and skills that lead to increased earning power.”
STATISTICS
ACCORDING TO UNESCO
61 M primary school–age children were not enrolled in school in 2010. 47% ever entered school, 26% left, and 27% attended.
EDUCATION FOR SCHOOL AGE GIRLS
An estimated 31 M girls of school age and 32 M girls of lower secondary school age were out of school in 2013. 1 year of secondary education = 25% increase in wages.
GIRLS MARRY BEFORE AGE 18
Recent estimates show that one–third of girls in the developing world are married before age 18, and one–third of women in the developing world give birth before the age of 20.
STOP CHILD MARRIAGES
If all girls had secondary education in sub–Saharan Africa and South and West Asia, child marriage would fall by 64 per cent, from almost 2.9 million to just over 1 million.
RESOURCES
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