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 each of these issues affects girls! Here are some of your favourites: Education Why Educate? 6 Benefits of Girls’ Education Health Microscopic [...]

If you could tell the story of poverty how would you tell it? Serah Odeke, a young filmmaker whose hometown is Nairobi, Kenya tells the story of Ciciliah and her family living in a slum outside Nairobi through the lens of a video camera. Mathare slum, where the family lives, is home to more than [...]

Getting ready for the Day of the Girl coming up on September 22, here are 22 facts for you to know about girls’ rights! 1. Over 500 million adolescent girls and young women live in the developing world. Girl safety 2. 21% of girls age 15 to 19 around the world are already married. 3. Almost [...]

Think of all your favourite comforts at home – your own bedroom, a welcoming kitchen with all the gadgets, clean water and electricity delivered straight to your door, and garbage pickup once a week. Now imagine having none of those things, and you’ll have some idea what it is like for the more than one [...]

Does this map look distorted? It is. Instead of presenting the world according to area, this map’s distorted country size shows the proportion of all underweight children in the world that live there. Though there are no countries that don’t have underweight children, it is clear that the developing world has an unfair share. Girls [...]

“I was so excited about going abroad and earning money and helping my family.” Noraida, from the Philippines who, at the age of 13, left to work in the Arabian Gulf. Whenever I hear something like this quote, I try to think what I was doing at that age. What was I doing at age [...]

Yesterday some girls told us about the different ways they’ve experienced gender discrimination.  One told us of how she plays hockey with boys.  The boys make fun of her for being a girl and whisper about her being weak.  Another girl said she challenged a boy in her class who said ‘girls should only be [...]

After the show yesterday in Thunder Bay when Masia One and Eternia were signing autographs, I sat down in a chair and exhaled.  A student walked up to me and said “Woah, you totally had a sad look on your face right then.” I didn’t want to admit it to her, but I was.  For [...]