Official Dosomething.org Project

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Jessica L

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The Problem

Society can affect girls negatively. In our society, girls often trade their self-confidence and ability to help others and instead feel self-conscious and insecure. Girls in poorer societies are inhibited by poverty, abandonment, and worse.

Plan of Action

We send out a bimonthly magazine to girls all over the world, called G4C. The effect is twofold: this for-girls by-girls magazine does not have half-naked models, tips on how to be sexier, or listings of impossible-to-afford fashion. Instead, the magazine issues promote self-confidence through articles on volunteerism, healthy living, and role models of other teen girls. Furthermore, in every issue there is a feature on an exemplary girl, their call to activism, and suggestions for how readers can get started in a service project. (In the past we've featured girls working on issues like poverty, orphans, education, and mental illness, just to name a few.) This "empowers girls to empower the world", which is our motto.