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Girl Rising Impact Highlights GIRL RISING IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS Powered by stories of determination and a growing network of strategic partners and community-based activists, Girl Rising is turning ideas into impact. To date, we have reached millions of people: raising awareness through mass media campaigns, shifting attitudes by mobilizing influencers and local advocates, and inspiring actions that encourage behavior change and equal investment in girls and boys. Mass Media • 5 Billion+ global media impressions. • An original radio magazine produced in 1,600+ Articles published about Girl five local languages aired on community Rising, 2.3 M+ Youtube channel views. radio stations throughout DRC, reaching an estimated 4 million households • The Hindi version of Girl Rising aired on in communities where electricity and India’s No. 1 entertainment channel, televisions are rare luxuries. Star Television; leveraging the star power of Bollywood’s mega stars • India’s Ministry of Women and Child Priyanka Chopra, Parineeti Chopra, Development invested funding Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Alia Bhatt to broadcast GR Public Service among others. Announcements (PSAs) across television networks and over 3000 cinema halls • Girl Rising content has been translated across the country. into 30 languages and dubbed in Hindi, Hausa, Lingala, Swahili, Tshiluba and • We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission Congolese French. to Educate Girls Around the World, a film produced by Girl Rising, broadcast • 96/100 TPI (Top media-impact score) on television as the highest rated CNN awarded to Girl Rising by Participant film of all time. The film premiered at Media, reported high levels of emotional the White House for International Day of engagement, social impact and a desire the Girl 2016. to stay engaged after viewing the film. Girl Rising Impact | girlrising.com Global Action Campaign • 40+ grassroots community partner • Girl Rising’s communication tools organizations and 250+ corporate are reaching communities around partners engaged and active in Girl the world through: high-level policy Rising’s work. meetings, university classes, community celebrations, health initiatives, girls’ safe • Tens of thousands of educational, spaces programming, youth leadership, grassroots, corporate and policy school enrollment drives, teacher and leaders reached through Girl Rising film journalist trainings, engagement of screenings around the world, includes: secular and religious leaders, girls’ clubs, Heads of State, Education and Finance parent-teacher groups and more. Ministers, Congressional Leaders and First Ladies. • The Girl Rising Network includes: Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, • Nearly 6,000 educators from over 125 World Bank President Jim Kim, Alicia countries and all 50 U.S. states have Keys, Meryl Streep, Priyanka Chopra, registered to use Girl Rising’s feature film Freida Pinto, The George Washington and free curriculum in their classrooms. University, Brookings, Intel, Hewlett Packard, USAID, Save the Children, the • With former First Lady Michelle Obama, Government of India, O&M, CNN, STAR we launched the #62MillionGirls TV, Peace Corps, Queen Rania of Jordan campaign, creating 1 billion+ social and more. media impressions in the first three days. Participants included Stephen Colbert, Beyoncé and Bono. Over 248,000 stories shared. Country Programming • 24-week curriculum on breaking gender • Da Bazar Mu... videos approved by stereotypes for sixth and seventh grade Nigeria’s Kano State Universal Basic boys and girls currently reaching 41,200 Education Board for use in primary students in India. schools and integrated into partners’ 500 digital learning libraries in primary • 25 middle schools in Brooklyn, New schools. York piloted a “Girls Empowerment Movement” (G.E.M.) using GR content. GEM students increased their belief Continued on next page... that being a girl meant being confident, strong, and happy by 56%. The program is expanding citywide in January 2018. Girl Rising Impact | girlrising.com • School-based pilot programs in • Over 24,000 official educational, Houston, TX, Quincy, MA and Tampa, FL grassroots and corporate screenings reached 1,250+ students, empowering have reached 650,000+ people in students to gain skills needed to thrive communities worldwide including India, in a changing world such as global Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the citizenship and financial literacy. Congo and the U.S. • Localized GR content stood at the heart • Students participating in GR of a community health communications programming around the world reported project in the DRC, reaching hundreds being significantly more confident when of thousands of community members, it comes to overcoming barriers to including over 84,000 girls. 86% of education, making decisions about their audience members surveyed said that education, setting goals for themselves the film motivated them to take action and voicing their own opinions. on behalf of girls’ education in their own lives or in their communities. • Film content and workshop guides were integrated into “Peace Club” youth programs in northern Nigeria, reaching over 600 participants and augmenting a local organization’s efforts to inspire youth to value and pursue their education and believe in themselves. Girl Rising Impact | girlrising.com.
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