Seven years ago, Lynette Trott had never rock climbed. This month, she’s climbing Everest. And she’s climbing it for Girls.
After reading a magazine article on Plan’s Because I am a Girl campaign, she was moved enough to tackle the highest mountain on earth for the cause of girls around the world. On [...]
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Climbing to the Highest Heights for Girls
DAY 1: Amy Reporting from the Commission on the Status of Women in New York
This week, the United Nations is meeting to look at how the status of women has changed in the 15 years since creating the Beijing Declaration, a commitment to achieve greater equality and opportunity for women. Three of the members of the Because I am a Girl Speakers’ Bureau are in New York to [...]
Olympic Wins Show the Power of Girls
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 [...]
Because I am a Girl Book: It’s on the way!
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 stories [...]
Awesome Sites about the Power of Girls
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 it [...]
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (Guest Blogger Melanie Gorka)
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 [...]
Being a Girl in a Haitian Camp
So, the press around the disaster in Haiti has cooled off, but that doesn’t mean that the issues faced by those affected by the earthquake are fixed or over.
I’ve talked before about how women and girls are affected by natural disasters and now, a couple of weeks after the disaster, we are starting to hear [...]
All you Single Ladies out there!
One of Because I am a Girl’s supporters is throwing a socially-conscious Valentines Day Singles Party to raise money for the Girl Fund! The event will feature DJs, dancing, desserts, makeovers, and a photobooth. For those of you single 20-somethings on the prowl, this is the event for you:
There will also be great giveaways from [...]
Editing the Because I Am A Girl Documentary
Our editor Jon Eagan hard at work !
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View more presentations from Plan Australia.
We’re not alone here in Canada on a quest to invest in girls…the Because I am a Girl Campaign is happening all over the world. Yesterday I was checking out some of the other sites, and I found this slideshow from Plan Australia with this great [...]
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