Educating Girls Will Break the Poverty Cycle!
An Educated Mother Will Ensure Her Own Girls Are Educated.
An educated girl can contribute to the GDP of her country.
If India were to educate just 1% more girls, it's GDP would improve by $5.5 billion (source "Girls Rising" documentary)
Girls Matter Vision
Girls Matter’s vision is to support education of girls in developing countries, to increase the respect, visibility and equality for girls in their communities.
Girls Matter’s mission is to increase access to financial support for girls’ high school and / or post secondary education in developing countries.
3 key program areas:
- Educate girls to complete high school. In select cases, consider educating girls to complete University.
- Support girls to attend classes all year long, by providing menstrual pads (currently they regularly miss 1 week of classes / month).
- Through education, reduce the # of teenage marriages / teenage Moms.
DO GIRLS MATTER?
Yes!
But the sad fact is, that in many communities they do not matter, nearly as much as boys.
If you manage to scrape together enough money to send your child to school? Best to send your eldest boy.
What about that menial job in a factory? Just send a girl, They can do it. They don’t need an education
This is the reality in many developing communities around the world. Boys are just valued so much more than girls.
Our belief, here at Girls Matter, is that when you educate a girl, you not only empower the girl, but you also lift up her family and her community.
“Girls Rising” is a documentary outlining the need to support girls in developing countries gain access to education, and the benefits that come from doing so. Below is the trailer. With our work through Girls Matter, we are impacting, one girl, one family, one village, one country at a time.
Check out the videos below for some inspiring stories of girls rising up!
GIRLS RISING
Check out this video showing the power of educating a girl.
From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins, the award-winning producers of The Documentary Group and Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, strategic partner, Intel Corporation, and distribution partners CNN Films and Gathr, comes Girl Rising -an innovative new feature film about the power of education to change a girl – and the world.
From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins, the award-winning producers of The Documentary Group and Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, strategic partner, Intel Corporation, and distribution partners CNN Films and Gathr, comes Girl Rising -an innovative new feature film about the power of education to change a girl – and the world.
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez and other esteemed actresses contribute voice performances to the film, which features original music from Academy Award winner Rachel Portman and Grammy Award winner Lorne Balfe.
The film spotlights unforgettable girls like Sokha, an orphan who rises from the dumps of Cambodia to become a star student and an accomplished dancer; Suma, who composes music to help her endure forced servitude in Nepal and today crusades to free others; and Ruksana, an Indian ‘pavement-dweller’ whose father sacrifices his own basic needs for his daughter’s dreams.
Each girl is paired with a renowned writer from her native country. Edwidge Danticat, Sooni Taraporevala Aminatta Forna and others tell the girls’ stories, each in its own style, and all with profound resonance.
These girls are each unique, but the obstacles they faced are ubiquitous. Like the 66 million girls around the world who dream of going to school, what Sokha, Suma, Ruksana and the rest want most is to be students – to learn.
And now, by sharing their personal journeys, they have become teachers. Watch Girl Rising, and you will see – One girl with courage is a revolution.