Yesterday’s Globe and Mail front page is all about girls! Above the fold, a huge picture of Canada’s heros, the Women’s National Hockey Team stares out at you. As we’d hoped, all the ladies are biting down on gold medals! Yay Girls! Lower down on the page it gets interesting, with an article about how [...]

If you haven’t heard already, yesterday Jenn Heil, the Olympic Silver Medalist for Freestyle Mogul Skiing and a big Because I am a Girl supporter made a big announcement: she is giving $25,000 to the Because I am a Girl Campaign!!! Jenn and teammate Alexandre Bilodeau both decided to give money to charity after their [...]

“To survive on the streets, girls have to join one of the hundreds of gangs in Alexandria, whose joining fee is sexual abuse by older gang members. The authorities in Alexandria believe that girls who are not virgins, who are now ‘ladies’ are automatically the responsibility of their non-existent husbands. And this blind presumption means [...]

Today I was thinking about the fact that even though I’ve only been involved with Because I am a Girl for a few months, I’ve already been able to meet so many girls that are doing amazing things for girls around the world. From fundraising to awareness raising, these girls kick butt! There’s Beatrice who [...]

I just ordered my Because I am a Girl Book through Amazon and can’t wait ’til it gets here! A bunch of authors have gotten together and written a collection of stories about the experience of girls around the world, including places like Brazil, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Uganda, Ghana and the Dominican Republic.  The [...]

Meet Marie Dumay Miracles.  She’s a perfect example of how the Because I am a Girl approach works. Today, Marie is a Civil Engineer, and the Deputy Mayor of her home town in Haiti.  But, it wasn’t always clear that Marie would be able to reach this level of success and have the chance to [...]

This week, someone passed me a couple of great Girl sites that I urge you to check out! Girls Discovered provides super clickable maps of all global facts about girls, like education and health.  You can also create your own map from all the information in the database.  For example, I made one and posted [...]

The torch has almost reached Vancouver and the snow has been trucked and flown in. It can only mean one thing: the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are about to start! Freestyle Mogul Skier and Because I am a Girl Ambassador Jennifer Heil will kick off the competitions with her events on February 13, 2010 and has [...]

The United Nations is known for its declarations and conventions – they’ve even got one on the rights of women called the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).  CEDAW “is often described as an international bill of rights for women…it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up [...]

Join the world is standing up for the right of girls to say no to Female Genital Mutilation.  Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation.  Maybe the most violent act that a girl is forced to undergo, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a violent and unnecessary procedure and it always breaks [...]