Monthly archives: November 2011

Fearless Alicia Talks About Running the Because I am a Girl Facebook Page for a Day
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Earlier this fall, we asked our Facebook community for volunteers. What we were looking for: someone to choose a day’s worth of Facebook posts to share with our community of 50K fa[...]

Changing The Lives Of Girls, One Issue At A Time
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Did you know? Plan Canada's work to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty is based around eight core issues. Here on the blog, we've got posts about [...]

How Plan and Because I am a Girl Help End Violence Against Women
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Let's take some time today to think and talk about the reality that women are living with all over[...]

Protecting Girls' Right to Identity in Paraguay (Photos)
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How does a small country get 300,000 new citizens in a year and a half? It starts counting all of them! Before Plan’s "Right to Identity" program, one million people in Paraguay[...]

Child Rights and the Because I am a Girl Manifesto
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Did you know that the Because I am a Girl Manifesto is all about Child Rights? In 1959, the United Nations wrote down the basic rights that every child should have in the UN C[...]

Girls and The Toilet Crisis
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Education and toilets. What's the connection? Find out in today's World Toilet Day post: Humans and human waste don't mix Dangerous parasites, microbes and chemical[...]

Sarah Taylor from MuchMusic Visits Ethiopia (and tells us about it)
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Sarah Taylor, MuchMusic VJ and Because I am a Girl Celebrity Ambassador headed to Ethiopia earlier this year to learn about the ongoing drought emergency in East Africa. If you hav[...]

10 Quotes About Kindness for World Kindness Day
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If you missed World Kindness Day yesterday, don't worry: everyday is a good day for kindness! 1. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. (from Aesop's Fables) [...]

How Plan and Because I am a Girl Help Girls With Disabilities
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Girls with disabilities have all the same rights as girls without disabilities. Even so, being a girl with a disability is often a double challenge. Girls with disabilities ha[...]

Immunization Saves The Lives of Millions of Girls
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All it takes is a vaccine: Immunization has saved literally MILLIONS of children’s lives around the world. The World Health Organization estimates that 2.5 million lives are saved [...]