Jan 13, 2018 | Girls We Love
Search for: Displaced but not defeated, María is determined to raise awareness of displaced people. “How long are we going to be moving from one place to another?” María remembers asking her mom, Yolanda. She and her siblings lived in gang-infested settlements,...
Jan 13, 2018 | Girls We Love
Search for: How Rose made sure her family got access to clean water Four years ago, Water.org documented Rose’s story. At the time she had just taken a small, affordable loan to give her family a toilet and water at home. She explained why this loan was so important...
Jan 13, 2018 | Girls We Love
Search for: This 16-year-old’s voice reaches homes across Guatemala As an advocate for Rise Up, Alejandra uses radio to address girls’ education, sexual violence and street harassment in Guatemala. Ask Alejandra why she speaks up for girls and she’ll tell you: “I...
Jan 13, 2018 | Girls We Love
Search for: Serafina’s family encouraged her to stay in school. Now she wants other girls to have that chance. Having lived through violence, discrimination, and subsequent displacement in South Sudan, it is difficult to understand why Serafina might want to go back....
Jan 13, 2018 | Girls We Love
Search for: How this program gave Constance the confidence to thrive in school and beyond Constance Amusugut found out she was pregnant when she was about two months along. She was 15. The first person she called was her boyfriend — the father of the child — but after...
Dec 2, 2017 | Girls We Love
Search for: Meet Mariska Hargitay It all started for me when I began my work on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In my research for my role, I encountered statistics that shocked me. One in three women and one in six men are survivors of sexual violence. I was...
