Aug 2, 2017 | Girls We Love
Search for: Meet Lila Igram Women and girls around the world face formidable challenges. They suffer disproportionately from poverty, conflict, and oppression. I wanted to do something to help. At the time, I was devouring articles in Fast Company magazine that...
May 25, 2017 | Entrepreneurship, Girls We Love
Search for: Meet Rifkatu Rifkatu is a mother of six living in Plateau State in Nigeria. The region her family lives in is unstable and conflict-ridden, but the peace Rifkatu most urgently needed when we met her was in her home. Rifkatu’s husband, Jonah, would hit her...
May 25, 2017 | Girls We Love
Search for: Meet Laurie Adams Renowned writer and activist Alice Walker once said, “Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.” I have always identified with this quote and seen myself as an activist and agent of change. Years ago, when I was a student at...
May 20, 2017 | Education, Girls We Love
Search for: Meet Ruvimbo WATCH THE VIDEO In early 2016, Ruvimbo Tsopodzi and Loveness Mudzuru, two child brides, appealed to the highest court in Zimbabwe – the Constitutional Court – to amend the Marriage Act. The Act as it stood stated that a child of 16 could...
May 18, 2017 | Girls We Love
Search for: Meet Lakshmi Sundaram Each year, 15 million girls are married under the age of 18. Marriage is usually devastating for the well-being of these girls, and it also holds back the development of their societies. Despite this, very few people were talking...
May 10, 2017 | Girls We Love
Search for: Meet Amy Barasch I was raised in New York City, where diversity is the norm, and curiosity, energy and ambition are in the drinking water. I searched for my own passion by working as a journalist in NYC and Paris. I wanted to make change, and when I looked...
