VOICE 4 Girls

India is home to over 72 million adolescent girls. Girls are excluded from critical knowledge about basic health, safety, human rights, and life skills. Without this knowledge or the ability to make decisions, they are unable to advocate for themselves or take control of their own futures. These isolated girls are more likely to perpetuate cycles of poverty and social inequality in their communities. This pressing situation is compounded by the fact that adolescent girls have the immense unmet potential to reconstruct societies from within. Given knowledge and agency, an adolescent girl is proven to advocate for herself, seek educational opportunities, and pull herself, her family, and her nation out of poverty. Failure to invest in young women is not only an injustice to girls; its holding back global development. VOICE exposes underserved populations of girls to a variety of marketable, life skill topics to develop confidence and expand their personal support networks in or...