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CARE and Girl Scouts of the USA Believe that Every Girl Can Become a Force for Change |
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That's why we're joining together to engage and mobilize girls in the U.S. around critical issues affecting girls around the world, with a special focus on education and leadership.
Join The Power of Girls Movement
Did you know that of the millions of children around the world who never get an education, the majority are girls?
- Learn more about this and other issues affecting girls around the world by downloading the CARE Student Action Toolkit. It's an easy guide to help you learn about global issues as well as hands-on organizing, fundraising and advocacy, so that you can take an active role in raising awareness at school and in your community.
Did you know that most of the world's poorest people are women and girls?
Did you know that the more education a girl gets, the more likely she is to have a healthy family, a solid income to invest back into her community, and a vision for her future?
Help Girls around the World
Girls just like you are the best advocates for girls' issues, because you're the experts. Get involved and help girls around the world lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.
- Check out CARE's Student page for ideas about how you can take action to make the world a better place for girls.
About CARE and Girl Scouts of USA
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. Recognizing that women and girls suffer disproportionately from poverty, CARE places emphasis on empowering them to create permanent social change. Women and girls are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, expand economic opportunity, increase access to health services and protect natural resources in more than 60 countries around the world.
Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls with 3.6 million girl and adult members worldwide. Girl Scouts is the leading authority on girls' healthy development, and builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. The organization serves girls from every corner of the United States and its territories. Girls Scouts of the USA also serves American girls and their classmates attending American or international schools overseas in 90 countries.
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