Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) improves the lives of girls in rural India.
It uplifts and empowers girls from the poorest sections of society by providing free education and vocational training, and thus creates a new generation of self-reliant and educated girls who will break the cycle of poverty in the region.
Girls on the Run inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Girls on the Run is a transformational learning program for 8 to 13 year-old girls. We teach life skills through dynamic, conversation-based lessons and running games.
Girls Learn International®, Inc. gives American girls a voice in the movement for universal girls’ education.
Girls Learn International®, Inc. (GLI) pairs American middle and high school-based chapters with international partner schools in countries where girls have traditionally been denied access to education.
Susan notes: this beautiful piece by Cory Eldridge found me in a roundabout way. Someone had posted a link to another story by Eldridge on a blog that I follow.
After I savoured the short essay, which I can only describe as one of the best pieces of writing about expat workers that I have ever read, I scrolled down to find the one below about two young Muslim girls in an American schoolyard. It's also beautiful. And particularly touching given the recent stabbing murder of Marwa Sherbini, 31, an Egyptian woman living in Germany.
Rania Al Abdullah (Arabic: الملكة رانيا العبد الله Rānyā al-‘abdu l-Lāh) (born Rania al Yassin on 31 August 1970) is the current Queen consort of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II of Jordan.
She is one of the world’s most powerful women, and has focuses her energy, at home and abroad, on a variety of causes, notably education.
Girls on the Run
Girls Learn International®, Inc. gives American girls a voice in the movement for universal girls’ education.
Rania Al Abdullah (Arabic: الملكة رانيا العبد الله Rānyā al-‘abdu l-Lāh) (born Rania al Yassin on 31 August 1970) is the current Queen consort of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II of Jordan.