To: 1311 students
From: Laura Seanez
Date: 2/14/2011
Re: The Coalition for Adolescent Girls
Girls can change the world if they are educated. In countries like India, Somalia, Pakistan, Niger, and Swaziland, girls don’t get a proper education. When girls are educated they get options and with options come opportunities to create a better future for her and her family. In those countries is common that girls younger than 19 years old get in an arranged marriage. According to studies of the organization Girls Discovered, girls are more likely to improve their lives and society if they get 7 years of education. There are various organizations that specialize in education for girls. In countries like India, girls need to be counted as important members of society; they can change the expectations that they have of themselves, and with that change they will try harder to be the best they can be. The Coalition for Adolescent Girls is one of the organizations that give education to girls all around the world from low income to help girls be important members in their society.
The Coalition for Adolescent Girls is an organization founded by the United Nations Foundation and The Nike Foundation in 1995. Their major office is on 1800 Massachusetts Avenue N.W. suite 400, Washington D.C. They choose only girls because they believe that girls can change the world. When girls are in groups of only girls they can express how they feel without worrying what others will say of her. This organization has over 30 leading joined organizations; one of them is Girls Discovered. Girls Discovered is an organization on charge of making research to see what girls need to be helped in. This organization had researched various countries. In India 50% of girls (10-18years old) are underweight while males are not. In Pakistan only 3% of girls from 15-29 years old understand and try to prevent HIV. In Niger 80% of young women from 20-29 years old have no education. In Swaziland 22.6% of girls form 15-24 years old are HIV positive. With education girls tend to marry a few years later than they would if they were not educated, and have less and healthier children. These organizations specialize only on helping girls because they believe that girls put a lot more effort on changing their family’s lives and their own.
The Coalition for Adolescent Girls as well as other organizations like Seeds of Peace, works on helping girls become better leaders. The Coalition for Adolescent Girls, not only literates girls, but educates them to live a better and healthy life. They pick girls around the world and bring them together in the summer, to teach them how to read or write, and to get them together to eliminate any racist problems. All these girls are in need because in their country, most of them, they are not worthy of spending income to educate them. The way they get their money to help those girls is by donations of various organizations as well as everyone that wants to help the girls. In the home webpage of Girls Discovered, there are histories of girls and what they need to be helped in.
