Friday, January 4, 2013

Girl Up Conference: Empowering Girls Everywhere

By Maryellen Lamb


The challenges we face as individuals can sometimes seem insurmountable, but imagine a life of struggle where your most basic rights are violated everyday. Imagine a world in which you live where you cannot receive education or get the basic healthcare that you need. These are the issues that the Girl Up conference is fighting to change for girls around the world and in other countries who must endure this kind of treatment.

Life can prove to be a very challenging experience for many adolescent girls who may live in regions where their rights are violated every day. This organization was formed to give these girls back the power over their own lives by changing the world and the system one region at a time.

Life should be about pursuing goals and dreams, facing challenges together, and hope that the world will be a better place for all girls to live and be who they and the best they can be. We all have dreams but when faced with the challenge of having no basic rights, those dreams can seem like distant memories in light of stark reality.

Many of these girls face being married off in childhood or having to endure childbirth at a very young age. American girls are aware and doing something to make a change in the lives of their foreign counterparts. Through this organization, girls are united to make a change for the better. The conference is held yearly and many girls attend to help empower, enlighten and provide hope for a brighter future.

Through the help of the United Nations, Girl Up is helping those in other countries by giving hope that they can receive education, healthcare and the things that they need to empower their lives and achieve their full potential. It is through the endless efforts of girls that have a vision of what the world should be, and they are taking their fight on a global scale to change the lives of those who do not have a voice.

Many of the girls in the organization are adolescents who realize that change needs to happen on a global scale. While they enjoy certain freedoms they feel that all girls should have that same right and are thus fighting to make those changes happen.

The Girl Up Organization's statement is to uniting girls to change the world. It is through this unity that change will eventually happen for many. The girls of this organization are dedicated to the cause and the conference is only a small part of what they do. It is in giving of themselves and their time and resources that will make this effort successful.

While the Girl Up conference is a yearly event, the efforts to create change are ongoing year round. Those changes are taking place because of the united efforts of the girls and their resources. The organization is still growing and developing just as the girls themselves. It is about growth and facing challenges together.




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