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Challenge Accepted: Closing Of The Gender Gap

On September 9th, Women and Girls Lead Global and our partners ITVS, Ford Foundation, USAID and CARE hosted a Global Gender Gap Challenge at the gorgeous GitHub headquarters. The goal of the event was to create new design and ideas that will transform the lives of women and girls.

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Red-Carpet Film Screening Motivates Change in Peru

In Pucallpa, Peru, youth filmmakers are recognized for their extraordinary work on their film "Don't Back Down", which focuses on reproductive health and its effects on youth education, similar issues that are focused on in WGLG's campaign in Peru, "Ahora es Cuando". Not only was the film successful in giving a voice to countless young people across Peru in their struggle to transition to adulthood, it has continued to build momentum since its red carpet premiere.

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Now is the Time Campaign Urges Parents to Talk to Teens

”Ahora es Cuando” – Now is the Time – is the name, and also an important message of Women and Girls Lead Global’s (WGLG) campaign in Peru. Traveling to remote rural communities in the Amazon and Andes regions, the WGLG Peru team found that parents and adolescents in these communities were deeply uncomfortable discussing important reproductive health issues and associated risks. Urging parents to talk to their teens sooner rather than later about these pressing issues, the Ahora es Cuando campaign highlights the important connection between timely access to reproductive health information and the completion of secondary school.

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