Thankful 🍂

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Do something today that your future self will thank you for. #globalhealth

xx,
st

“Children should be the first to benefit from mankind’s success and the last to suffer from its failures, for it is how we bring up our children that our civilization is measured, our humanity is tested, our future is shaped.”

— Jim Grant, UNICEF

Invest in Our Girls

Women's Entrepreneurship Day ignites women leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs who drive economic expansion, and advance communities worldwide! Did you know:

- Women make up 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs in the US (oh hay!)
- 8.6 million businesses owned by women, generating $1.3 trillion in revenue and employing 7.8 million
- When you empower a young girl with long-term education, she devotes 90% of her earnings back to her children and local community, which elevates her family from poverty and changes her world.

34% of young women in developing countries are unemployed, in the labor force and not in school. Today we recognize the 4 billion women across the globe, ignite women leaders, and inspire the 250 million girls living in poverty. 

Benefits of change:
One formula that is either underestimated or deliberately neglected in most communities around the world that can break the toxic cycle of poverty: education of girls and women.

Improving literacy among girls and young women offers enormous economic benefits when she is seen as a wage-earner for her family. She has a better likelihood of making her own choices and resisting cultural pressure to have children. Educated girls are far more likely to protect their offspring from preventable diseases and avoid malnutrition. 

Reaching girls during their adolescent years is critical because decisions and behaviors established during this period affect their development and shape their adult life. 

This is about to blow your mind:
To close this deficit, approximately $40 billion is needed annually (which is the equivalent of 8 days of global military spending). 

I learned that women perform 66% of the world’s work, but only earn 10% of the world’s income. They also account for 85% of consumer purchases and control $20 trillion in worldwide spending.

Women who receive an education are more likely to become entrepreneurs, invest in their communities and empower other women. Suddenly, the vicious cycle of poverty becomes a cycle of prosperity. Everyone wins.

xx,
st

Dream big ✨