I love all things Girl Power (though I can’t bring myself to call it ”grrrl power”), so learning about the organization Girls Helping Girls was a real treat. Girls Helping Girls is a nonprofit that brings together girls from different countries to talk about and find solutions to problems they are facing. They put girls, not adults, in charge of the programs.
According to the new Idealist.org post about the organization: ”By bringing groups of girls together to discuss broad social issues such as poverty, education, health, and the promotion of peace, Girls Helping Girls strives to address statistics such as these: that 94% of youth in America feel powerless to make a difference, or that one-third of girls in the San Francisco area report feeling depressed.”
I find that statistic so disturbing–94% of youth feel powerless to make a difference. I have an idea for providing role models to kids, showing them how they can make a difference because lots of other kids and young people have done it before them. Stay tuned.
