What do you get when you cross a slumber party with a fundraiser? A Slumber-Raiser! Speaker’s Bureau Girl Sydney decided she wanted to do something for girls’ rights. She harnessed the volunteer power of girls, guys and staff at her school and held a spectacular girls-only slumber-raiser event. Stay tuned as I interview Sydney to [...]

Become an advocate Want to help focus the world’s attention on girls’ rights? Signing the Girl Petition and writing to your Member of Parliament are two easy ways to raise awareness. Get your school involved by bringing advocacy to them: print off a pile of letters, find some friends, grab clipboards, envelopes and pens, and set [...]

‘I will do my part in the world. If we don’t forget to try, everything will be fine… …One girl at a time.’ Sings 14-year-old Avery: Inspired by the Because I am a Girl campaign, she and her sister, 12-year-old Laura (both from Nova Scotia) decided to throw a fundraiser on behalf of girls. Their [...]

Most of the girls that have joined the Because I am a Girl campaign are not kidding around.  In fact, they are pretty serious about their commitment to girl power, and they are clearly demonstrating their own girl power in the kinds of actions that they’re taking.  Take a look: This past Mother’s Day, 320 [...]

One of the coolest things about being the blogger for Because I am a Girl is that I get to hear about girls have taken the thing that they are passionate about, and used it to raise awareness and money for girls around the world that face discrimination, poverty, and insecurity. This week’s girl that [...]

Check it out!  Plan staffers Sarah, Ndungu and Sangita are hitting the road to compete in the Edinburgh Marathon in less than a week!  Don’t they look tough? They’re half way to their goal of raising $5000 to support the Because I am a Girl campaign.  If you believe in the cause that they’re taking [...]

Girl sees ad campaign for Because I am a Girl. Girl decides to take action. Girl tells her friends in the Downtown Alternative School (DAS) and they decide to join the campaign. Result? Cupcakes! After deciding to take action, the girls in the DAS Roots & Shoots group planned an awareness and fundraising campaign involving [...]

Join us for the Markham Women’s 5K & Girls’ 1K on Sunday, May 9th, 2010. We are raising funds to support the Tanzania Girls School Residence Project through the Because I am a Girl campaign at Plan Canada. We are offering a women’s-only 5K Run/Walk and a 1K Run/Walk for girls under 12, on a [...]

Maddy, age 8, is the youngest in a long line of Plan supporters. Her mom, Sara Sterling, remembers her family sponsoring a Plan Foster Child when she was young, and now she has gotten her husband and daughter involved as well. “We always keep the picture of our foster child on the fridge” says Sterling. [...]

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 [...]