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I had the privilege of teaching Sofia Stafford last year. At the time she was a sophomore and  a student in my broadcast journalism class and from the very first day she walked into my class, I knew she going to change the world. And she is, one blog post at a time: GIRL UP BFFS

Girl Up Update – “For Girls, By Girls”

Here’s a blurb from a recent post:

“Hello fellow girl champions!

Just by checking out Girl Up’s awesome website and following these blogs, you are on the path to making the world a better place for girls.

I am so excited to be Girl Up’s teen reporter for the Clinton Global Initiative and the Social Good Summit 2011! The Summit unites a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss a big idea: the innovative thinking and technology to solve our greatest challenges. President Clinton founded the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005 to turn ideas in to action and help our world move to a more integrated global community.”  (comes via Sofia Stafford and Girl Up)

She’s blogging for Girl Up United Nations Foundation to make a change for girls worldwide.

Girl Up, a campaign of the United Nations Foundation, gives American girls the opportunity to channel their energy and compassion to raise awareness and funds for programs of the United Nations that help some of the world’s hardest-to-reach adolescent girls. (Comes via Girl Up)

Multiply that by the millions of girls in the US, and there would be so many more people out there understanding the facts and recognizing that the lack of girls’ rights is one of our most urgent problems.”

“IRENE, DON’T BE MEAN!” Get your Girl On!

My sister, Jayne, lives in NC and shared this quote she saw from her neck of the woods.

INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC. and Girl Up

And while we anxiously wait for Irene to gather steam, I am having a great day tracking those natural folks who are making a global difference in this world.

NOW >THIS< EXCITES ME!

A friend of mine who is also a parent at my school, shared with me how her daughter is embarking on a wonderful opportunity this semester at Girl Up, at the United Nations Foundation, as a blogger. Education: It’s Not Just About the Boys. Get Girls Into School (via Girl Up) “The way out is not just to champion education generally but to focus intently on one subset of the problem: girls, who make up nearly 60 percent of the kids out of school. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, only one in five girls gets any education at all.” (comes via The Daily Beast > Girl Up>>Girl Up is a United Nations foundation>> And thank you, my friend, RCS.).

Here’s why I am excited.

These are young people who are taking global interest exponential levels. Perhaps there’s a way that we, as adults, can take their lead and stand behind them as they Girl Up for the future. Irene, who?

Today’s post comes to us from Sydney Coates, who attended the UN International Year Of Youth Culmination Celebration as a delegate. She gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how the event inspired her to do her part to make the world a better... Read the rest of this post