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Join Women and Girls Lead Global along with Vital Voices, Rise Up Together, Ashoka Youth Venture, and Wonder Girls, a new book from powerHouse books, for a live screening of Girl Connected, followed by a panel discussion with a group of extraordinary young leaders from around the world.
Girl Connected tells the story of five female role models in five different countries who are tackling gender inequalities. We invite global organizations, educators, and young people to engage in conversation on how gender biases continue to constrain girls' and women's potential — and how we as a global community can support girls to transcend them.
Watch the full film before joining us on 11/2 & bring questions to the discussion: bit.ly/GirlConnectedFilm
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Get #GirlConnected
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Girl Connected | Trailer
Five teenage girls use their individual strengths to tackle gender discrimination and violence in their communities. In Bangladesh, Peru, Jordan, India and Kenya, each of the five young women inspires her peers to transform their own lives. Though each finds her talents in a different field, their stories portray hope for a brighter future for all young adults. Watch the full film here: bit.ly/GirlConnectedFilm bit.ly/GirlConnectedInfo twitter.com/WomenGirlsLead facebook.com/womenandgirlslead
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Girl Connected | Michelle - Kenya
Meet Michelle - a girls' empowerment advocate and aspiring engineer from Nairobi, Kenya. One of 6 female students in her engineering program, Michelle fights gender stereotypes every day. Michelle knows she and the other girls she mentors can do more to lift up their families and communities with an education. Michelle is one of five amazing girls featured in Girl Connected. Watch the full film here: bit.ly/GirlConnectedFilm twitter.com/WomenGirlsLead facebook.com/womenandgirlslead womenandgirlslead.org
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Girl Connected | Ayesha - India
Meet Ayesha - a karate champion from Kolkata, India, fighting with her own epilepsy diagnosis as she faces her opponents. Ayesha now teaches karate to help other girls find the strength to protect themselves and walk with confidence. Ayesha is one of five amazing girls featured in Girl Connected. Watch the full film here: bit.ly/GirlConnectedFilm twitter.com/WomenGirlsLead facebook.com/womenandgirlslead womenandgirlslead.org
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Women and Girls Lead | Sizzle Reel
Everyone has a story to tell. We gather people in villages, slums, and crowded classrooms to share stories and imagine solutions that lead to real gains – from accessing education and leadership opportunities, to reducing child marriage and gender-based violence.
120 minutes
Moderators
- Women and Girls Lead Global
Women and Girls Lead Global is a trans-media project developed by Independent Television Service (ITVS), in partnership with USAID, with additional funding from Gates Foundation and Ford Foundation. Using documentary film, technological innovation, and strategic engagement, the project is reducing gender-based violence in India and Jordan; improving educational outcomes for girls in Peru; preventing child marriage in Bangladesh; and promoting women's leadership in Kenya.
- Cat
- Chingwell
Participants
- Belinda Goldsmith
Panelist
Belinda Goldsmith will moderate the live discussion of the Girl Connected screening. Belinda is the Editor-in-Chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate charity of Thomson Reuters, where she runs a global team of 45 staff journalists and a network of about 150 freelancers covering under-reported stories on humanitarian issues, women’s rights, human trafficking and slavery, property rights and climate change. Belinda joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London in 2014 after 20 years as a Reuters correspondent reporting from over 25 countries on political, financial and general news and leading various news teams. Recruited in Papua New Guinea where she was the first female correspondent for Australian Associated Press (AAP), she worked for Reuters in Australia, Sweden, the United States and Britain in a variety of leading roles. Belinda has run courses for journalists in developing countries, is a regular speaker on careers in journalism and on humanitarian journalism, and is on the judging panel of the European Press Prize and the International Network of Street Newspapers’ annual awards.
- Michelle Buyaki
Panelist
One of the five girls in Girl Connected, Michelle is blazing a path for girls in Kenya to pursue careers in STEM and other "off-limits" areas.
- Chelsea Miller
Panelist
A HERLead Fellow & Grantee, Chelsea founded WEBelieve, a nonprofit organization which empowers girls and young women of color through leadership education.
- Alejandra Teleguario
Panelist
Sixteen-year-old Alejandra is using radio to speak out against sexual violence & street harassment in Guatemala as an advocate for Rise Up Together.
- Yaara Tal
Panelist
A young leader in the Middle East peace movement, Yaara (featured in Wonder Girls) works with non-profit, Creativity for Peace, which trains young Israeli and Palestinian women to be peacemakers.
- Aarti Naik
Panelist
Aarti Naik is a Ashoka Youth Venture Changemaker and the founder and director of Sakhi for Girls Education, a social venture that builds capacities and creates quality learning spaces for girls in Mumbia. Sakhi focuses on literacy and life skills.
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