Teen Advisors
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Key Information
Leaders of the Movement
Girl Up’s Teen Advisory Board leads our by girls, for girls movement; advancing our mission, providing feedback on key strategy, representing Girl Up at major events during critical moments, and energizing others to take action for girls around the world.
Each Teen Advisory Board is comprised culturally and globally diverse group, who serve as the face and voice of the Girl Up movement. Teen Advisors serve a one-year term with Girl Up and share the common goal of creating change to advance global gender equality. Each class of Teen Advisors participates in three in-person trainings. The 2021-2022 Teen Advisory Board is made up of 25 girls representing eight U.S. states, and 14 countries and territories– Ghana, Zambia, Poland, United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Burma/Myanmar, South Korea, India, United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, the United States – and the British Virgin Islands.
Since its inception in 2010, more than 150 girls have gone through this global program. Collectively, Girl Up Teen Advisors have raised more than $500,000, completed more than 7,000 hours of community service, hosted hundreds of events in their communities around the world and performed thousands of advocacy actions at local, national, and global levels. They’ve also represented Girl Up on some of the world’s biggest stages, been integrated in critical global moments, and featured in some of the top media publications
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Global
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Global / regionalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
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Cross-cutting areas
- Empowerment
- Gender equality
- Mentorship
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
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Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
Social/gender norms change
- Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
- Work with community leaders
Women's empowerment programs
- Advocacy/action
- Leadership training
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