By Tia Kelly | Project leader and cofounder of Global Sorority
As Global Sorority continues to grow, it's our goal to offer more opportunities for girls right here at home.
It is true that in the developing world many girls don’t have the same opportunities or access to education and equal rights as girls in the united states have, but we’ve seen that girls are suffering here in very real and tangible ways that society has been ignoring.
We look across the globe and see women forced to wear burkas, not being allowed to go to school, girls going missing in India before they are even born, girls being married before they are grown and girls being kidnapped from their schools. These events are all tragic and Global Sorority works hard to support girls in all of these places around the world, but we don’t want to look so far away that we miss girls right here who are suffering from, eating disorders, sexual objectification in the media, they lack confidence and are starting to self harm in alarming numbers. This shows up in way of cutting, substance abuse, and other risk taking behaviors.
Girls all around the world can benefit from our programming and it will ripple out far and wide when a girl right here finds her confidence, her voice and her passion to make a difference. We want girls here to gain the tools and inner resources that it takes to become a great leader so that she can continue on in helping girls around the world to have the same!
With your continued support Global Sorority would like to start its first US chapter in San Diego California and partner them with a sister chapter in Mexico.
Bringing girls together from around the world to create sustainable change for us all!
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