Why Girls Can Change The World

In recent years women have been a major focus for many NGO's around the world. In fact its been reported that "Women and girls are disproportionately affected by poverty. Parents in many cultures don’t want their daughters to be educated. Research shows that an educated girl will invest 90% of her future income in her family (compared to 30-40 percent for males), yet less than a penny of every international development dollar is spent on her. 70 percent of the children out of school are girls. Many laws are discriminatory. Sexual violence is a big problem that is greatly underestimated. 75 percent of adolescents with AIDS are female, and they’re contracting the disease not from boys but from older men."

Nike and Maria Eitel are making great strides in providing women around the world with opportunities beyond what they could have imaged. I'm excited to see watch as this grassroots movement builds raising the living standards from the ground up.