The Girl Effect, n.: the powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate.
The Girl Effect is a campaign launched to break the cycle of poverty. Research has shown that girls have the greatest potential to be change agents in their communities. The goal is to end poverty. Making girls visible in their communities, providing them education, stays health and HIV free, a choice of when they marry, and then she can change the standard of living for her family, community, and country. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book Half the Sky, shows through statistical evident and personal accounts that the Girl Effect is possible, investing in women within a community can eradicate poverty.
The Girl Effect is an initiative of the Nike Foundation. Here's how you can get involved send a girl to school, or help her fight a legal case, or give her a microloan, visit www.globalgiving.com/girleffect to get started. Or just spread the word, the more people know the greater their ability to be a change agent. Read the Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15154
for more information.
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