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• Zoe @ at 6:19 pm, September 19th, 2009
  

  This was inspiring. Makes me want to buy a cow for some girl. $60 isn’t that much to greatly enrich someone elses life.

• Chelsea! @ at 7:16 pm, September 19th, 2009
  

  Wow, the first video literally gave me goosebumps. It was so inspiring, and it’s so easy to make a difference to a girl in another part of the world.

• Chelsea! @ at 1:53 pm, September 20th, 2009
  

  Oh, and also, I’m head of the feminist section of my Young Democrats Club at school, and I talked to our president, and we decided we are going to do a fund raiser and donate all our profits to GirlEffect.org. We’re so excited to really make a difference.

• K8 AH @ at 2:07 pm, September 21st, 2009
  

  AHHH! I meant to give you 5 stars on this one, but it gave you 1 when I clicked! Anyway this is an amazing post and I was very inspired. I am very glad to know about Girl Effect. Thank you for sharing!

• Steph @ at 10:25 am, September 22nd, 2009
  

  I’ve been playing these videos to anyone who will listen, and at school assemblies, and continuously at student council movie nights, for about a year now. Glad to see someone else who’s seen this little gem of an organization.

• rachel @ at 8:19 pm, October 12th, 2009
  

  My school does a community service project every few months, and currently we’re raising money for the Girl Effect.
  fuck yeah, girls’ school!

• lucy @ at 4:39 pm, October 18th, 2009
  

  While I agree that this campaign is a positive thing, I have two objections with it, after watching the videos.

  The first is the campaign’s portrayal of girls in “third-world countries.” The four girls featured are depicted as victims of their backwards culture. There is a dichotomy between western values (buying things, ending child marriage) which is empowering, and traditional values which are oppressive. This sets up these cultures as monolithically sexist and unenlightened. This is at worst racist, and at best an oversimplification of the actual complicated relationship between culture and sexism. We cannot blame poverty on supposedly primitive cultures who don’t believe in gender equality.

  The second is the motivations the campaign presents for helping girls. Of course it is true that empowering girls is key to solving poverty and other global problems. However, framing women’s rights as a geopolitical issue overlooks the fact that fighting sexism has intrinsic value, and it’s the moral thing to do in any circumstance. It’s possible to do the right thing for the wrong reasons, and I think that would best describe this campaign and others like it.

• A @ at 3:06 pm, September 2nd, 2010
  

  I’ve been sharing this with teachers and friends for two years now and have had fundraisers to benefit it. I’m glad more people found out about it!

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