1. Girls Rising – One at a TIME!

2. By being part of this project you too commit to act in solidarity with girls’ suffering, exclusion, lack of opportunity, violence because of their gender, denial of human rights, forced marriage, rape.

3. “Data has proven that 66 million girls are missing out on the education that could transform their own lives and the world.”

4. Thanks to all of you for being part of our International Network. We WILL NOT STOP until every girl has an opportunity to attend school.

5. In the past girls from this school have helped to build a school in Cambodia, provided scholarships, and now you are helping to build a school in Sudan.

6. Our new School in Sudan

7. Children from the NUBA Mountains

8. New classrooms in process

9. Local villagers arrive to help

10. Your money at work!

11. Children sit in front of new building

15. Food arriving from the UN – Food Program

16. Lunch-time in the Nuba mountains

19. A new classroom

20. A Teacher’s House

21. Local women preparing food

22. Overnight Accommodation

23. Thanks to all of YOU from all of US! -

24. Did you know that in some cultures, Protecting a Girl’s honor and sexuality means marrying a young girl to protect her family’s honor?

25. “Did you know that poor families are tempted to sell their girl children, not just for marriage, but into prostitution, as the dollar transaction enables large sums of money to change hands? ”

26. “I was married to a nine-year-old boy when I was three....

27. “I had the first of my 7 children when I was 11 years-old.”

28. If current levels of child marriage hold, 14.2 million girls annually or 39,000 daily will marry too young!

29. Tahani, 8, is seen here with her husband Majed, 27. Her classmate Ghada, 8, and her husband of 29, outside their house.

30. Child marriage, which has existed for centuries, is a deeply complex issue, rooted in gender inequality, tradition and terrible poverty.

31. HOW CAN WE HELP?

32. RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF GIRLS AND ISSUES SURROUNDING THEIR LIVES.

33. Do not be overwhelmed, and recognize that while we cannot save every girl, we can help, and have helped, many!

35. Early Childhood Marriage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYleXcpbzKY&feature=y outu.be