World association of girls guides and girl

scoutsAbout World Thinking Day 2011

Millennium Development Goal 3: girls worldwide say "empowering girls will
change our world"

Girls and women of all ages in many countries do not have

the same opportunities as men. They do not have the same access to education as men - around
54 per cent of out-of-school children are girls. Women are underrepresented in the world’s
parliaments and in the labour workforce, and earn far less than men.

The World Thinking Day theme for 2011 is MDG 3: girls worldwide say “empowering girls
will change our world” and the aim is to raise awareness of the situation for many girls and
young women and empower them to take a stand against inequality.

Gender equality and empowering women is the third of the eight areas of focus made by 189
world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. It is part of the WAGGGS
Global Action Theme (GAT), which encourages girls and young women to make a personal
commitment to change the world around them by linking to an important global agenda: the
United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs.)

How to empower women:

Be role models

Join camps

Wag mgpapa Api sa mga boys; take care of your body

Remove the quote: dahil babae lang ako.

Be a GIRL scout

Our goal is not to overpower the men but to be equal with them

Though maraming oppurtunies ang babae, ndi pa rin sapat.

It’s a huge for all of us as an organization, but the challenge is in you.

Girls Helping Girls is an international nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that
partners girls in the United States with girls in schools and community organizations in developing
countries to jointly identify problems in their communities and develop social change through micro
lending projects to address those issues.

The mission of Girls Helping Girls is to build a global culture of girls consciously collaborating to make a
difference. We strive not only to bridge international cultures but, more profoundly, to channel the
power harvested from the girls' collaborative service projects to Eradicate Poverty, Increase Access to
Education, Improve Health, and – most importantly – Promote Peace.

Statistics show that 94% of youth in America feel powerless to make a difference, while in the San
Francisco region alone, one-third of girls report feeling helpless and depressed. GHG works to reverse
this trend by teaching girls to value their identities and find strength in one other. GHG not only
empowers girls from disadvantaged backgrounds to stand tall and assert their voice, but it also educates
them to value cultural diversity.

This is our mission.

Please visit our Program pages to learn more about how we accomplish this mission.

Our Core Values:

Together with our mission, Girls Helping Girls possesses a set of values that we consult in all of our
programs and partnerships. These core principles are integral to our infrastructure and execution and
inform and guide our decisions as much as our mission.

Youth Leadership- It is a well-known and now rather trite adage that youth are the leaders of tomorrow.
We declare, however, that youth are the leaders of today too- we must only recognize and cultivate
their leadership. It is significant for youths to recognize this ability themselves and for adults to
encourage and celebrate it. Latent youth leaders only require mentorship and guidance, and they will
blossom.

Cross-Cultural Collaboration- By uniting girls around the world to identify and confront universal issues,
we hope to kindle a global revolution that democratizes the quest for peace worldwide. We can only
accomplish this goal, however, by emphasizing commonalities over differences and opening dialogue
between disparate ways of life to foster understanding and respect.

Change through Education- In any endeavor, education is always cardinal to success. In order for girls to
understand and appreciate the variety and complexity of problems that face our earth—and their
potential for solving them—they must first learn about these challenges and different cultures’ and
regions’ methods of response. After we inform them and cultivate an interest in confronting these major
issues, Girls Helping Girls will translate that passion into action by giving them the tools and resources
they need to innovate solutions.

Girl Empowerment: Empower a girl, Empower Her nation- Girls Helping Girls strives to pioneer with its
work a gradual transformation in the way not only society but girls themselves view their potential for
forging change through service and cross-cultural dialogue. Through our work, we have realized how
crucial girl empowerment is to world peace, for if girls around the world only recognized their common
hardships- and collaborated to address those issues- we could create a fraternity of common minds
teaching and helping each other to make the world a better place. This is an indispensable component
of our mission.

 The average guy will live 74.1 years vs. 79.5.

 The average guy has an HDL cholesterol level of 46 vs. 55.
 The average guy's heart weights 10.58 ounces vs. 8.81 ounces.
 The average guy's chance of dying of a heart attack is 1 in 1,342 vs. 1,519.
 Odds of being in a car accident 1 in 14 vs. 1 in 21
 The average guy shaves 24 times a month vs. 11
 The average guy spends 179 hours in the bathroom annually vs. 195
 The number of men who read while sitting on the toilet 1 in 2 vs. 1 in 3
 The average guy over 50 has a 1 in 1,145 chance of dying of colon cancer vs. 1,635.
 The average guy cries or wells up 14 times a year vs. 64 times.
 Between 1980 and 1999, the number of men who died on active military duty, 31,196 vs. 1,716.
 The average guy's chance of dying of prostate cancer is 3.13 percent vs. .001 percent.
 The average guy can do 36 crunches in 1 minute vs. 27
 The average guy can do 27 pushups vs. 14
 The average guy can bench-press 93 percent of his body weight vs. 57 percent
 The average guy has a resting heart rate of 72 vs. 76
 The average guy can run a mile and a half in 12:25 versus 15:14.
 The average guy's largest muscles - his quadriceps vs. uterus
 The average guy spends 33 hours, 56 minutes watching TV each week vs. 30 hours, 14 minutes.
 The average guy spends 1 hour, 20 minutes a weeks looking for the TV remove vs. 7 minutes.
 The average guy can stretch his hands 1 1/2 inches past his toes when doing the sit-and-reach versus
4 inches.
 The fattest part of the average guy - his belly vs. hips
 The average guy will gain 1 pound, 4 ounces per year vs. 1 pound, 5 ounces.
 Percentage of guys who think that men are smatter than women - 27 versus 8.
 The average guy's brain weights in at 3 pounds, 3 ounces vs. 2 pounds, 13 ounces.
 Number of issues of Playboy and Penthouse purchased by men in a year - 3.8 million. The number of
romance novels purchased by women in a year - 47 million.
 Bachelor's degrees conferred in 1999-2000 men 530,367 vs. 707,508
 Average number of hours a man works per week - 43 vs. 36
 Number of men laid off in 2001 - 2,186,000 vs. 1,783,000
 Number of jobs a man will have in a lifetime - 10 vs. 9
 The average guy's refractory period is 30 minutes vs. 0.
  Percentage of all marriage proposals made by men 82 vs. percentage of all divorces initiated by
women - 70
 Percentage of men who are comfortable using sex toys - 23 vs. 16
 The average guy takes 14 minutes to reach orgasm. The average woman - we're still waiting.

One drop, one seed, one word, step at a time and that done well will ensure success