The Girl Effect

Learn more at www.girleffect.org and join the movement at www.facebook.com/girleffect. The Girl Effect is a solution to poverty. If we do our part, 600 million girls in the developing world will do the rest.

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[starjane19]

how do you make these videos?

[girleffect]

@starjane19 Hi, there! It was created by the Nike Foundation, produced by Wieden+Kennedy Portland & directed by Man vs. Magnet, in association with the production company Curious Pictures. The music in the video is by Elias Arts. Hope this helps!

[MIKEYEKIMIKEY]

Who knows the name of that song?

[mollym44]

these negative comments upset me this is a non profit that is trying to make the world a better place

[AnonymousJonny]

@WolfKissesStudios Nike uses labor from girls working in factories in Asia. Were it not for companies like Nike, those factory girls would not have factory jobs and be in worse poverty than they are already in. Read up on this program before you accuse anyone.

[metalmatthias]

@Robing6 Why you brought occupy into this is a mind boggling thought process to me.

[WolfKissesStudios]

@girleffect Nike Foundation? You mean Nike the sports company that uses child labor? The country that PUT that girl into poverty? The country that KEEPS HER IN POVERTY? Am I wrong? Then correct me.

[dnaude92]

Imagine a girl in poverty. NO SRSLy!!

Tell her to take out a loan for a cow.

After a couple months, the cow dies of disease.

Revenue from the cow doesn't cover the loan, and the bank is not sympathetic.

Shit happens. Don't ask people who have nothing to fall back on to take these kinds of risks. If you want education, you must first focus on economy. Economy has come first in all developed countries. Education comes from parents until basic needs are taken care of.

[tehc4ncer]

@BringYerOwnBomb because this particular org. is targeting girls since they are the poorest of the poor around the world. especially single mothers.

and there is a saying that if you educate a girl you educate a village, since that girl will be able to provide for her children and send them to school as fell and the children will do the same for their children and so on.

they think that targeting girls who usual are not educated and do not contribute, would help bring families out of poverty.

[ENGoldberg]

"The Slippery Slope is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. In most cases, there are a series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed."

I love the concept of empowering girls and alleviating poverty and the problems it entails, but there are some steps missing.

[BringYerOwnBomb]

But why just girls?

[faroohii11]

@oriolesfab61 i am muslim and i have many rights!! what you are talking about is afghanistan..

[MrTigerps95]

This assumes that by changing one person's life the rest of society will see the advancement that person can make a make changes for the remainder of society. But no time in history has this ever shown to be true. look at the US in the way the blacks were treated following the end of the Civil War. Everyone hoped that if the blacks became productive members of society then the whites would accept them as equals, but not until the US government enforced laws any real change occurred.