This is a brilliant video and I couldn't resist watching it 3 times in a row. It left me with chills and feeling very inspired.
There are 600 million adolescent girls around the world living in poverty. By giving one of these girls a chance, you start what can be referred to as The Girl Effect. When girls have safe places to meet, education, legal protection, health care, and access to training and job skills, they can thrive. And when they thrive, everyone around them thrives too.
If you want to end poverty and help the developing world, the best thing you can do is invest time, energy, and funding into adolescent girls. It's called the girl effect, because girls are uniquely capable of investing in their communities and making the world better. The following poster outlines 10 things that are standing in their way...
If you want to read more, go to girleffect.org