Help ‘Educate Girls’ win the Girl Effect GlobalGiving Challenge

There are just eight days left to help local non-profit Educate Girls win the Girl Effect GlobalGiving Challenge.

Autor*in Anna Rees, 11.22.12

There are just eight days left to help local non-profit Educate Girls win the Girl Effect GlobalGiving Challenge.

The competition is run by non-profit The Girl Effect and online fundraising platform GlobalGiving and aims to spotlight the efforts of people and organisations across the globe who work to ameliorate the position of girls and women by providing avenues to education and healthcare as well as breaking the cycle of child marriages.

The 70 finalist projects will be whittled down to six winners. GlobalGiving will provide financial support to winners and will feature each project on its fundraising site for one year. The competition lasts until November 30 and you can vote by making a small financial contribution to your preferred project (the projects with the highest number of unique donors will take out the winning spots).

Local non-profit Educate Girls is currently in the running with their project ‘Child Brides: Send them to School Instead’. Educate Girls runs a number of programs, this one specifically targeting the Jalore and Pali districts in Rajasthan. The team at Educate Girls works to give girls options and the freedom to make their own choices rather than become one of the 68 percent of females in this region who are married off before they turn 18. Through this project, Educate Girls works to improve infrastructure and education systems in local communities thus providing funding and a means for young girls to go to school. The team has currently enrolled almost 10,000 girls in local schools and needs support to do the same for another 10,000 girls.

The project is sitting just on the perimeter of the coveted final six spots, currently ranking seventh with 190 unique donors. You can help them with their challenge by donating 10 USD to the cause (the money will go towards getting girls into schools). The more people who donate, the higher the chance that the project will win so gather a group of people together and get donating!

To donate, visit the competition website, where you can also keep track of their progress.

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Author: Anna Rees/ RESET editorial

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