Our Mission:
Girls Helping Girls is an international nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that partners girls in the United States with girls in schools and community organizations in developing countries to jointly identify problems in their communities and develop social change through micro lending projects to address those issues.
The mission of Girls Helping Girls is to build a global culture of girls consciously collaborating to make a difference. We strive not only to bridge international cultures but, more profoundly, to channel the power harvested from the girls' collaborative service projects to Eradicate Poverty, Increase Access to Education, Improve Health, and – most importantly – Promote Peace.
Statistics show that 94% of youth in America feel powerless to make a difference, while in the San Francisco region alone, one-third of girls report feeling helpless and depressed. GHG works to reverse this trend by teaching girls to value their identities and find strength in one other. GHG not only empowers girls from disadvantaged backgrounds to stand tall and assert their voice, but it also educates them to value cultural diversity.
This is our mission.
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I wanted to give back what I was given, a sense of worth... Everyone wants to matter.
