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If you were intrigued by the theme of educating girls in last week’s post, Developments in Literacy, here’s another great organization trying to tackle the problem.

Girls Learn International was established in 2003 as a service learning initiative designed to bring American middle school and high school students into the global partnership to promote access to quality education for all girls.

Girls Learn International Chapters are based in middle schools and high schools in urban, suburban and rural communities across the United States. With facilitation by college interns, each American-based Chapter is then matched with a Partner Classroom in communities in Sub-saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Latin America.

The Partner Classroom provides quality education to girls in a community in which girls have traditionally been denied access to, or discouraged from completing, education.

The program works as participants in the American-based chapters engage in a variety of educational, communication, advocacy and outreach projects on behalf of the Partner Classrooms, where they have the chance to develop the critical thinking and problem solving skills essential to good leadership.

Girls Learn International is working to giving girls a better head start both in the United States and abroad. If you want to contribute to the cause, start a chapter in your own school, or purchase some cute clothing, check out their website today!

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