Raise YOUR hand for girls’ education!
We are using the first ever Day of the Girl on October 11 to shine a light on the importance of girls’ education. Around the world, millions of girls are kept out of school, just because they are girls.
We know educated girls marry later, have children later, and are more able to pull themselves and their communities out of poverty. So we’re working to educate 4 million girls through the Because I am a Girl initiative.
We need your help!
Around the world, a raised hand is a symbol for education and the empowerment that comes with it. So, raise YOUR hand if you believe every girl deserves an education, and tell the United Nations to put girls’ education at the top of the global agenda!
- Raise your hand virtually on Facebook and share with your friends
- Or, if you don’t have Facebook, take a photo of yourself, your friends or your family with your hand raised in the air. Add your photo to our “Hands up for girls” Flickr page by emailing your photo to handsup@becauseiamagirl.ca (photos must be in JPG file format only and file size should be less than 3MB).
Raise your hand now