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Investing in girls is key to eliminating poverty

 

Why invest in girls? A donation to Because I am a Girl gives you the multiplier effect because girls take what is given to them.

  • Educate a girl, and she will share her knowledge with everyone she knows.
  • Feed a girl, and she will feed and nurture everyone around her.
  • Empower a girl – she'll change the world!

You can help change the world for – and through – girls everywhere.

Girls are the answer – and so are you.

Choose how you want to make a difference.

Ways to donate

Sponsor a Girl

Sponsor a Girl

Empower a girl – she'll change the world! Get involved in the life of one special girl. Sponsor a girl in a developing country for just $37 a month. That's only about $1 a day.

Sponsor the Because I am a Girl project

Sponsor the Because I am a Girl project

For less than a $1 a day, you can contribute to Plan Canada’s Because I am a Girl project where your donations will help provide necessities such as education, health care, sanitation and livelihood initiatives to girls and their communities in developing countries.

Because I am a Girl fund

Because I am a Girl fund

Make a one-time donation to the Because I am a Girl fund, and help give girls and their families and communities a better, brighter future. Every dollar counts.

Gifts of Hope

Gifts of Hope

Make a one-time gift that gives twice – here and in the developing world. Gifts of Hope directly benefit girls by ensuring they receive the nourishment, education, care and basic rights they deserve. Girls' rights are human rights!

Because I am a Girl endowment fund

Because I am a Girl Endowment Fund

Participate in a named fund, a pooled fund or a future fund through the Because I am a Girl endowment fund. Plan Canada invests gifts to this fund and allocates income from the invested assets to girls' projects.

Join the Jenn Heil Challenge

Join the Jenn Heil Challenge

Join the fundraising challenge to raise $1 million for the Because I am a Girl initiative.

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Did you know?

  • 70% of the one billion people living in extreme poverty are women and girls.
  • Girls are 3x more likely to be malnourished than boys.
  • In the poorest countries of the world, 50% of girls do not attend secondary school.

When girls are educated, healthy and informed, they pull themselves, their children and their communities out of poverty.

  • An extra year of school for girls increases their lifetime income by 15%.
  • Women who do work reinvest 90% of their income back into their family.
  • When a girl is healthy, the community’s health improves with lower rates of child mortality and HIV infection.
 

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