GIRLS LEARN INTERNATIONAL™, INC. PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Exploring Human Rights

• Defining Human Rights
• What do Human Rights Have to do with girls
• Girls' Access to Education: Global inequality
• How can we make a difference
• Team building
• Introducing the Partner Classroom

Gathering Information

• Guided Search/Scavenger Hunt
  
  - Internet- Newspaper
  - Documentaries
  - Periodicals
  - Interviews
  - Field Trips
  
  
• Evaluating Sources

Fostering Global Understanding

• Introduction to partner community
• Understanding local customs and traditions
• Getting acquainted with the Partner Classroom
• Learning names and faces
• Cross-cultural communication
• Assessing needs of Partner Classroom
• Setting goals for partnership

Planning Effective Action

• Doable actions/Sustainable Actions
• Experts Speak
• International Education: video and documentaries
• Good Aid vs. Bad Aid
• How to be effective
• Long term vs. short term goals

Gaining Advocacy Skills

• Defining components of advocacy
• Designing a template for action
• Identifying support base/target audience
• Developing a message
• Fundraising
• Public Speaking
• Political Action

Going Public

• Raising community awareness
  
  - Assembly
  - Articles
  - TV/Radio
  
  
• Dealing with resistance
• Public Relations
• Gathering Support

Sharing our Experiences

• GLI Regional Conferences
• Becoming GLI Ambassadors
• Next Steps