Girl Up is an innovative campaign of the United Nations Foundation. We give American girls the opportunity to become global leaders and channel their energy and compassion to raise awareness and funds for United Nations programs that help some of the world’s hardest-to-reach adolescent girls.
Girl Up envisions a world where all girls, no matter where they live, have the opportunity to become educated, healthy, safe, counted and positioned to be the next generation of leaders.
There are more than 600 million adolescent girls living in developing countries today. These girls are bright, talented and full of dreams, but are often unable to reach their full potential.
Many of them struggle for the opportunity to go to school, see a doctor or be included in their communities. This has serious consequences including: low levels of enrollment in school, high levels of child marriage and way too many girls facing health risks from pregnancy and early child birth.
Girl Up believes that American girls are a part of the solution. We know that girls give, girls talk and girls get involved. This generation of girls cares about global issues and is concerned about the challenges facing other girls around the world.
Urge your members of Congress to cosponsor the Girls Count Act
Why Count Girls?
Approximately one person in twelve around the world is a girl or young woman aged 10–24. Yet many developing countries do not account for the number of girls in their population. Due to an unavailability of systems to count these girls, and sometimes simply due to a lack of political will, girls will be denied birth certificates or other forms of official identification. This means that as a girl grows up it will be difficult, if not impossible, for her to attend school or get a job in the formal business sector. She will not be able to own her own or inherit land, start her own business, or vote. She will likely be confined to the home and left unpaid – an invisible member of society.
Numbers count. So do girls.
take action
We need your help! Support the movement for adolescent girls and tweet your friends to tell them to take action to help girls around the world.
Click on the Twitter links below to help spread the word:
Girls who get an education marry later, have fewer kids, and are more likely to access healthcare for their families. #Unite4girls w @GirlUp!
Girls make up more than 1/2 of the 140 million children and adolescents that are out of school. Support #girlseducation with @GirlUp today!
Investing in girls is the KEY to reducing poverty and bettering the lives of families around the world! #TogetherWeAreStronger @GirlUp
What Can You Do?
Tell your members of Congress to advocate on behalf of girls everywhere and support the Girls Count Act of (H.R. 3398; S. 2591).
Sign your name and take a stand to count girls everywhere!
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