How much is it possible to learn in 8 days? According to Masarat Daud, the Chief Actionista of the 8 Day Academy, a week and a day of intensive learning can be life changing. Giving back to girls’ education Masarat is from the largest state in India, Rajasthan.  It is also the state with the most child [...]

Living in the spotlight gives celebrities – whether they’re reality tv stars, big screen talent or queens of pop – a platform to stand up for what they believe in. As girl advocates, fame may be smaller, but we still have a voice in our communities. Hear what some celebs have to say about taking [...]

Girl. Cancer survivor. Triathlete. Lisa Clarke-Potts knows something about taking on a challenge and reaching her own goals. “I was just back from breast cancer and surgery and I wanted to get fit and improve my physical strength,” says Lisa. She recognized her strength as a swimmer – the part of the race most athletes [...]

Having the International Day of the Girl added to the World Calendar is a critical step in helping to empower young women across the World. The World Calendar focuses one day a year on a certain cause. The “International Day of the Girl” will lead to international recognition and celebration of the power of girls; [...]

Rathika Sitsabaiesan is 29 years old, born in Sri Lanka, and the first female Member of Parliament (MP) ever to be elected in the Scarborough-Rouge River riding in Ontario. Today, she gives us the inside scoop on how writing a letter to your MP about an issue you care about – like girls’ rights – can make [...]

The search is over! Earlier this year, smartwater and Because I am a Girl went on a nationwide search to find a team of smartgirls to head to Rwanda on a once-in-a-lifetime trip with Olympian Jenn Heil. The three lucky (and inspiring!) ladies are packed and ready to go – they’ll be leaving on a [...]

Blossom Bath & Body is proof of the power of young women. The owner, Shauna Podruzny, is a young woman herself. And she makes sure to fill her shelves with perfumes, soaps, and skin care products made by other young women from around the world. Shauna is a big supporter of Because I Am A [...]

Because I am a Girl Ambassador Darcy Turenne is on a quest to find other girls like her that kick butt in sports that are dominated by men. She recently launched The Eighth Parallel, a powerful movie about girls and adventure sports in Indonesia. The movie features four girls that are pushing the boundaries of what girls [...]

KJ: Tell me a little bit about yourself! I’m Hilary and I go to school in Toronto at the Bishop Strachan School. I’m a grade 10 student and in September I travelled to Tanzania with Plan Canada. KJ: You headed to Tanzania last Fall – can you tell me a bit more about that experience? [...]

One month after Diana Gee-Silverman joined Plan’s emergency program team, disaster struck Haiti in the form of a massive earthquake. Diana has been busy ever since. As Diana explains, Plan deals with two kinds of emergencies – ones that happen suddenly, like the Haitian earthquake, and those that are ongoing, like conflict in Sudan. I [...]