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The Girl Effect is about empowering young girls to end the cycle of poverty and create a brighter future for themselves and the world. It’s not hard to get involved! Our ability to change a life is so attainable that we have no excuse to underachieve. Don’t become sheltered in complacency. Concern will shed our indifferences and remind us that we too are empowered -and we are blessed with the opportunity to do the same for someone else.
The founders of the Girl Effect explain one of the main reasons for the campaign:
“It has been shown that an educated girl will invest 90% of her future income in her family, compared to 35% for a boy. Yet 250 million adolescent girls live in poverty and are more likely than boys to be uneducated, married at a young age, and exposed to HIV/AIDS. Today, less than two cents of every international development dollar go to girls, the very people who could do the most to end poverty. As long as girls remain invisible, the world misses out on a tremendous opportunity for change.”
You can learn more by visiting the website: http://www.girleffect.org/