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Burka Avenger
60milliongirls Jul, 24, 2013Meet Pakistan's newest superhero. Yes, she's a girl. And best of all, she's fighting for girls' education. Burka Avenger uses her black burka to hide…
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A Tanzanian Girl’s Long Walk to Education
60milliongirls Jul, 10, 2013This BBC "in pictures" story follows 8-year old Sylvia, who lives in in rural Tanzania and is determined to get an education. Sylvia walks 1 and…
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Does Kenya’s Plan to Put Laptops in Schools Address Reality?
60milliongirls Jun, 28, 2013Oleleshwa Girls Secondary School, KenyaKenya recently announced a plan to deliver 1.3 million laptops to schoolchildren, which sounds like pretty incredible news, in a country where…
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Girl Power
60milliongirls Jun, 12, 2013Every feel like giving up on dream? You might want to check out this story, about three sisters in Pokhara, Nepal. The sisters saw that…
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Where There is No Loo…
60milliongirls May, 15, 2013[ted id=1713] It's 2013, yet 2.5 billion people in the world have no access to a basic sanitary toilet. That's 40% of the world's population.…
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Girl Rising
60milliongirls May, 03, 2013We were thrilled to hear about this new documentary. Any film that increases awareness about girls' education is a great thing, but this one is…
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Funding from 60 million girls Helps Launch 3-Year Girls’ Education Project
60milliongirls Apr, 12, 2013WUSC just announced that along with Windle Trust Kenya, it has secured funding to continue our work in girls’ education in Kenya. The Kenya Equity in Education Project was…
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The Malala Fund
60milliongirls Apr, 05, 2013[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgZarlB3fKc] This is what you call a silver lining. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in 2012 by the Taliban for her…
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Marc Kielburger to speak in BC
60milliongirls Mar, 27, 2013The BC Chapter of 60 million girls is delighted to invite you to attend an informal lunch with Marc Kielburger, co-founder of Free The Children, an international…
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A Girl Who Demanded School
60milliongirls Mar, 13, 2013Engaged at the age of 5, Kakenya Ntaiya was set to participate in a female circumcision ceremony as a teen... and then be married. But…