About the powerful social and economic change when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society.
There are 600 million adolescent girls living in poverty in the developing countries. By giving one of these girls a chance, you start the girl effect. If you help these girls to have safe places to meet, education, legal protection, health care, and access to jobs, they can thrive. And if they thrive, everyone around them thrives, too.
Visitors to the website learn about “the girl effect,” the ability of adolescent girls in developing countries to bring unprecedented social and economic change to their families, communities and countries. For example, studies show women reinvest 90% of their income into their families but a man will reinvest 30-40%. The website helps to learn, change and share and gives tools for girls and women to spread the word.
I was deeply touched when I watched the girl effect.
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