Because I am a Girl in the Dominican Republic

As part of the Because I am a Girl report series, the 'Real Choices, Real Lives' cohort study was set up in 2007 to follow 142 girls from nine countries around the world from birth until their ninth birthday. Their stories help illuminate the decisions and choices families worldwide face as their daughters grow up, and are a vivid reminder that the facts and figures contained in each report are about real people real girls and their families.

This film features a girl from the cohort study and looks and girls and women from different generations which gives a sense of the prospects and challenges facing girls growing up in the Dominican Republic countryside. Learn more at http://www.becauseiamagirl.com.au

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Dominican Republic
• Because I am a Girl
• gender
• discrimination
• girls
• women
• poverty

[bowwowhaitianwifey]

This just proved that DR is no better than any other country in the west indies!

[alydamarte]

damn!! i used to live in the country side of the DR but i didnt do all that. what a strong little girl, but im sure my mom and dad had to do all that.

[DreamLUVpeace]

Dominicans is just a large mixed/biracial group of people that's why some of them look black

[kwacou]

Dominicans are not Africans/Blacks they're Spanish, white and from Spain ( only in the minds of Dominicans) LOL

[juanlmesl]

@bowwowhaitianwifey no shit. we are not the usa beliving the same thing

[M0ntri]

@buttercup5773 Why don't you take a ride by Mississippi. or the homeless camps in Washington or by any other of the forgotten states in the US before talking about 3rd countries

- flickr(dot)com/photos/jimmysmi­th/55996014/

- blog(dot)historian4hire(dot)ne­t/2010/04/29/dc-homeless/

I'm sorry for showing you the reality you don't see!

[CodeTwo2]

It's a shame... but some people's lives are pretty much mapped out from childhood.

[otoernest]

@OrianaArias Lol dont, a boy dont u see the pik on my profile