Changing the world for girls isn’t only about giving, donating, fundraising and raising awareness. It’s also about how we live our lives as Canadians Did you know that the choices we make here can impact a girl in the developing world? Nowhere is this more true than what we choose to put in our lunch boxes [...]

Imagine opening your lunch box, and finding it empty. Afternoon classes are tough enough to get through, but especially on an empty stomach. Meseret Yohannes, a pre-school teacher in Ethiopia, has seen hunger enter her classroom: “Once, when I was working with my children, a six-year-old girl fainted and fell on the wall. I immediately [...]

What is “Food security?  It is a situation “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.” For food security to be possible, the World Health Organization says that food has to be: Available: Food availability means that there is enough food to eat all the time. [...]

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 haven’t already, you can check out the Sarah in Ethiopia special online. Lucky for us, she also had the time to share some of her insights from her trip! KJ: At the Plan for [...]

Without food, girls’ bodies and minds are at stake. Hunger leads to illness, stunted growth, and school dropouts. There are 170 million children around the world who go to school hungry, and many more who are hungry but don’t go to school at all. Ending hunger isn’t a quick fix One of the ways Plan [...]