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GIRL UP CAMPAIGN - UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION
United
Nations Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign encourages American girls to raise
awareness and funds for United Nations programs that help the world’s
hardest-to-reach adolescent girls
No matter where they live in the world, girls are bright,
talented, and full of dreams. But too many girls growing up in developing
countries aren't able to fulfill those dreams because their chances to go to
school, stay healthy, and live free from violence are out of reach.
The United Nations Foundation's Girl Up is a campaign for
girls, by girls.
The United Nations Foundation is
launching its newest campaign – Girl Up –
which encourages American girls to channel their energy and compassion to raise
awareness and funds for their counterparts in the developing world. Girl Up
will raise awareness about the 600 million adolescent girls living in
developing countries and encourages American girls to give back.
“Girl Up is a campaign ‘for
girls, by girls.’ The UN Foundation believes in the power girls have to make
global change,” said Elizabeth McKee Gore, Executive Director, Global
Partnerships, UN Foundation. “Our research shows that American girls feel it is
not fair that one in seven girls is married prior to the age of 15 in
developing countries. We are proud to stand behind girls by launching this
campaign, and we are looking forward to ushering in a new wave of philanthropy
among teens and tweens.”
Funds raised through Girl Up will
support proven United Nations programs that help the hardest-to-reach girls in
such countries as
“The case for girls is so
compelling. If you can give a girl the smallest chance, she can make the
biggest change,” said Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, a Girl Up Global
Advocate. “This program will give a girl in
An impressive group of Global Advocates, Champions, and Partners are joining the United Nations Foundation to empower adolescent girls around the globe. Girl Up Global Advocates include:
The Founding Partners for the
campaign are:
In support of the campaign,
Founding Partner Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry released a signature Girl Up
bracelet (retail $30 USD) with 100 percent of the net proceeds benefiting the
campaign.
“Girl Up’s ‘for girls, by girls’
approach encourages American girls to become forces of global change,” said
Ivanka Trump, a Girl Up Champion. “I am proud to be working with Girl Up and
girls in this country to help ensure that all girls – no matter where they are
born – get the tools they need to be educated, healthy, counted and positioned
to be the next generation of leaders.”
“When I heard about all of the
girls around the world who don't get to go to school or are forced to get
married before they turn 15, I was really upset so I wanted to do something to
help them,” said Victoria Justice, a Girl Up Champion. “As a Girl Up Champion,
I get to lead the charge and make a real difference in girls’ lives.”
Girl Up’s Unite for Girls Tour is
launching today in New York with a Pep Rally at the Vanderbilt YMCA. There will
be special appearances by Victoria Justice, star of Nickelodeon's “Victorious,”
and Nigel Barker, renowned photographer, TV personality, and author of the new
book, The Beauty Equation. Girls will have the opportunity to travel through an
interactive display with a passport in hand, to learn about girls just like
them all around the world, and how they can help make the future brighter for
their counterparts in developing countries. The Unite for Girls Tour will be
visiting five metropolitan areas across the nation in 2010 and traveling to
even more locations in 2011 to energize U.S. girls to take action in support of
their counterparts overseas.
“We are asking every American
girl to go to GirlUp.org to learn and
talk about the issues facing girls around the world and give a simple High
Five. A $5 donation can transform a girl’s life simply by providing a notebook
for a girl in Ethiopia so she may go to school,” said Kimberly Perry, the UN
Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign Director (photo).
Quick Facts about Girls:
For more information, visit www.GirlUp.org.
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About Girl Up
Girl Up, a campaign of the United Nations Foundation, gives American girls the
opportunity to channel their energy and compassion to raise awareness and funds
for programs of the United Nations that help some of the world’s
hardest-to-reach adolescent girls. Through Girl Up’s support, girls have the
opportunity to become educated, healthy, safe, counted and positioned to be the
next generation of leaders. Campaign supporters are encouraged to give a “High
Five” to girls in developing countries by donating $5 or more to provide girls
with such basic needs as access to school supplies, clean water, life-saving
health services, safety from violence and more. Founding campaign partners
include MTV Networks, National Coalition of Girls’ Schools, Women’s National
Basketball Association, Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry, Girls Inc., and
About the United
Nations Foundation
The United Nations Foundation, a public charity was created in 1998 with
entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to
support UN causes and activities. We build and implement public/private
partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and work to broaden
support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. Through our campaigns
and partnerships, we connect people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve
global problems. The campaigns we conduct reduce child mortality, empower women
and girls, create a new energy future, secure peace and human rights, and
promote technology innovation to improve health outcomes. These solutions are
helping the UN advance the eight global targets known as the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).