US students travel to Ghana

Jul 10, 2016 | Education

Search for: US Students Travel to Ghana in partnership with BFI to work at the Budumburam Liberian Refugee Camp. Over the last decade Rutgers University has partnered with the Busia Foundation for their International Service Learning program in Ghana. Each year their...

Malala’s Story

May 15, 2016 | Education, Girls We Love

Search for: Malala’s Story Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...

Malala Fund

May 14, 2016 | Education, Organizations We Love

Search for: Malala Fund is focused on helping girls go to school and raise their voices for the right to education. When girls are educated, everyone benefits. There are many reasons girls do not continue their schooling including poverty or traditions that do not...

Shattered lives

May 12, 2016 | Education, Girls We Love

Search for: Shattered lives: On the run from war, Syrian girls labor in Turkey’s notorious garment industry  WATCH THE VIDEO In her hometown of Aleppo, Loury was a budding musical prodigy. Born to a Syrian folk dancer from Raqqua and a musician, she learned at a...

Meet Amina

May 11, 2016 | Education, Girls We Love

Search for: Malala’s friend Amina is bright, passionate and a fierce advocate for girls’ rights.  WATCH THE VIDEO Malala’s friend Amina is bright, passionate and a fierce advocate for girls’ rights. At 19, she lives in Northern Nigeria — one of the most dangerous...

Education Under Fire

May 10, 2016 | Education

Search for: Education Under Fire: Crisis and Conflict Force Millions of Girls Out of School  WATCH THE VIDEO No matter where a girl goes to school, she deserves of a quality education, free from violence. And far too many girls around the world live in places...