Take a moment to watch by using the link: The Girl Effect.
You can become a fan on Facebook!! Take a look at the website for additional information and ways to help!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
The Girl Effect
Take a moment to watch by using the link: The Girl Effect.
You can become a fan on Facebook!! Take a look at the website for additional information and ways to help!
Friday, January 8, 2010
A Coalition for Adolescent Girls
www.coalitionforadolescentgirls.org
Girls Count: Global Action & Investment Agenda
A Girls Count Report on Adolescent Girls
One organization that tops the list is The Coalition for Adolescent Girls. Please take a moment to check out their website and the vast amount of information available. Here is a brief synopsis and staggering statistics reflective of adolescent girls in developing countries.
One person in eight is a girl or young woman age 10–24. Girls’ welfare is fundamental in determining economic and social outcomes (Levine, et al., 2009).
The cycle of neglect of girls’ rights, poor health and education indicators, meager economic options, and the generation-to-generation transmission of poverty can be broken by focused investments in girl-directed policies and programs that meet girls’ needs (Levine, et al., 2009).
Even beyond the self-evident human rights argument, the wellbeing of girls is vital for societies—and protecting girls’ rights and fostering their opportunities is the right strategy for economic development (Levine, et al., 2009).
The condition of girls ripples out to their families, communities, and countries and echoes into future generations in particular and profound ways (Levine, et al., 2009).
Compelling data show that key future social and economic outcomes depend heavily on the condition\ of adolescent girls today—not only their access to education, which has become a well accepted (albeit still unfulfilled) part of the development agenda, but many other aspects of their welfare (Levine, et al., 2009).
Staggering Stats:
- In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, only 17 percent of girls enroll in secondary school.
- One girl in seven in developing countries marries before age 15, and nearly half of all girls are expected to marry by age 20.
- Around 59 percent of HIV-positive adults in sub-Saharan Africa—the worst affected region in the world—are women, and 75 percent of infected youth are girls ages 15–24.
- Nearly half of sexual assaults worldwide are against girls ages 15 and younger, and girls ages\ 15–19 in developing countries are at a particularly high risk for physical and sexual violence
- One-quarter to one-half of girls in developing countries become mothers before age 18. Adolescent girls are up to five times more likely to die from complications of pregnancy than women in their 20s, and their babies are also at higher risk of dying.
(Levine, et al., 2009).
Reference
Levine, R. Llyod, C., Greene, M., & Grown, C., (2009). Girls count: Global action & investment agenda. A girls count report on adolescent girls. Retrieved on January 8, 2010 from http://www.coalitionforadolescentgirls.org/girls_count
Girls Count: Global Action & Investment Agenda
A Girls Count Report on Adolescent Girls
One organization that tops the list is The Coalition for Adolescent Girls. Please take a moment to check out their website and the vast amount of information available. Here is a brief synopsis and staggering statistics reflective of adolescent girls in developing countries.
One person in eight is a girl or young woman age 10–24. Girls’ welfare is fundamental in determining economic and social outcomes (Levine, et al., 2009).
The cycle of neglect of girls’ rights, poor health and education indicators, meager economic options, and the generation-to-generation transmission of poverty can be broken by focused investments in girl-directed policies and programs that meet girls’ needs (Levine, et al., 2009).
Even beyond the self-evident human rights argument, the wellbeing of girls is vital for societies—and protecting girls’ rights and fostering their opportunities is the right strategy for economic development (Levine, et al., 2009).
The condition of girls ripples out to their families, communities, and countries and echoes into future generations in particular and profound ways (Levine, et al., 2009).
Compelling data show that key future social and economic outcomes depend heavily on the condition\ of adolescent girls today—not only their access to education, which has become a well accepted (albeit still unfulfilled) part of the development agenda, but many other aspects of their welfare (Levine, et al., 2009).
Staggering Stats:
- In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, only 17 percent of girls enroll in secondary school.
- One girl in seven in developing countries marries before age 15, and nearly half of all girls are expected to marry by age 20.
- Around 59 percent of HIV-positive adults in sub-Saharan Africa—the worst affected region in the world—are women, and 75 percent of infected youth are girls ages 15–24.
- Nearly half of sexual assaults worldwide are against girls ages 15 and younger, and girls ages\ 15–19 in developing countries are at a particularly high risk for physical and sexual violence
- One-quarter to one-half of girls in developing countries become mothers before age 18. Adolescent girls are up to five times more likely to die from complications of pregnancy than women in their 20s, and their babies are also at higher risk of dying.
(Levine, et al., 2009).
Reference
Levine, R. Llyod, C., Greene, M., & Grown, C., (2009). Girls count: Global action & investment agenda. A girls count report on adolescent girls. Retrieved on January 8, 2010 from http://www.coalitionforadolescentgirls.org/girls_count
Half the Sky Movement
I STRONGLY urge everyone to read, Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are co-authors of Half the Sky. Kristof writes an Op-Ed column for The New York Times. WuDunn is an investment advisor, with a focus on philanthropy.
www.halftheskymovment.org
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Save A Girl, Change the World Initiative
Save a Girl, Change the World Initiative
Empower Support Educate
This is a grassroots movement to create awareness to cultivate change.
JOIN IN become a follower!!!! Coming soon....T-shirts and other merchandise to show your support! Proceeds will go to support girls and young women in developing countries. CHECK BACK SOON!!!!
Thanks for your support!
Create Awareness to Cultivate Change
Save a Girl, Change the World started as a thought or vision as I watched as episode of Oprah that featured Nicholos Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn the authors of the book Half the Sky. I felt inspired and empowered. At the same time, small and helpless. That evening I ordered the book Half the Sky. I knew before opening the cover I would be captured and transformed. But how can I, one person, make a difference? A small voice keeps telling me to just – “try”. So with that thought and belief, I am forging ahead. Maybe someone will listen or read….maybe they won’t. Regardless, I am going to “try”. What a better time than the beginning of the New Year, 2010! Knowledge is power.
The intention of Save a Girl, Change the World is to “create awareness to cultivate change”. Social change has to come from a grassroots effort. Maybe people, including myself, don’t know where to begin. We want to help, get involved, make a DIFFERENCE. We will feature different organizations, research, and additional grassroots efforts.
Continue to read, share our blog, become a Friend on Facebook, join in efforts, share your story. Save a Girl, Change the World, was started to create awareness to cultivate change by one person who is willing to “try”.
The intention of Save a Girl, Change the World is to “create awareness to cultivate change”. Social change has to come from a grassroots effort. Maybe people, including myself, don’t know where to begin. We want to help, get involved, make a DIFFERENCE. We will feature different organizations, research, and additional grassroots efforts.
Continue to read, share our blog, become a Friend on Facebook, join in efforts, share your story. Save a Girl, Change the World, was started to create awareness to cultivate change by one person who is willing to “try”.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
