Hardly a week goes by lately that doesn’t involve someone I respect referencing The Girl Effect videos. “Have you seen those spots about the value of girl’s self-esteem?” and “I can’t remember what they’re called, but those animated spots about girls and HIV prevention” and other phrases are now becoming so repeated that I wanted to pay homage to the campaign about girls’ unique opportunities to raise themselves and their communities out of poverty. The key? Education.
You can read other thoughts on the six GirlEffect.org spots on the Wise Living Blog. Consider it a set of opposing outcomes–school and financial independence, or illiteracy and early and unhealthy pregnancies–that affect “Girls. And boys. And moms and dads and countries and villages and towns and countries.”
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