By Brittany | Health, Hunger, & Education Program Manager
“It’s important for girls to bring things from inside to the outside,”stated Walaa, 17-year-old from Zaatari unnerefugee Camp, Jordan. Runner-up for the Big Idea Prize, Girls’ Voices for Change.
Our Girls’ Voices program inspires girls to bring their thoughts, their challenges, and their ideas for a brighter future from the inside to the outside through digital media. The GreaterGood.org donor community then contributes to their future through our Girls’ Voices scholarship fund. So far – through your support – we have awarded 111 scholarships to girls from nine countries!
To amplify our girls’ creativity and continue to fundraise for their education, we launched the Girls Voices For Change Contest this spring. Starting March 8 – from the Caribbean island of Bonaire, to the streets of Kathmandu, to a refugee camp in Jordan, girls engaged in discussion, generated solutions, and picked up cameras to share their ideas with us. A panel of judges and the public (YOU!) selected the winners, and this week we are so proud to introduce you to each of them, starting with the Big Idea Prize!
For the Big Idea Prize, we challenged Girls’ Voices participants to come up with a concept that could help end gender disparity in education, and to convince us of their idea with a compelling video. The winner would receive a $1,000 grant to implement their project. For many of the girls, it was the first time sharing their hearts with a global audience – for others, it was an opportunity to focus their creativity on the issue of gender disparity in education and their ideas for making the world a better place.
Introducing the Winner and Runners-Up for the Big Idea Prize
Get inspired by the passion these three winners have for making the world a better place, and help secure a future for each of the creators by donating to her education today!
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By Brittany John | Health, Hunger Programs Manager
By Brittany John | Health, Hunger & Education Program Manager
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