Girl Empowerment Makes for Beautiful Lives

Sooo...it's been awhile. This month I am participating in a day program that is dedicated to empowering girls.

Empowering girls is important in today’s society. Especially in developing countries, there are many programs that are trying to teach girls how to make healthy choices so that they can lead healthy and happy lives. Girl Empowerment isn’t something that is needed in just those countries, but it is desperately needed in our community as well. Though we live in a day where women are supposedly equal to men, just by turning on the television, you’ll see that our media and general society is really saying otherwise. Media objectifies women and repeatedly reinforces the idea that a female must be sexually appealing to a man. Even on TV shows where a woman is in a powerful career, they are still being objectified in steamy scenes. Women are as capable as men but sadly, when a 16-year old pop-star is dancing on a pole, or a high school girl is in sexy lingerie in bed with her boyfriend on a TV show, our girls are shown from a young age, that THAT is what society wants them to be.

We, as a society, should be teaching young girls that we need to have love for ourselves. We need to help nurture self-esteem and help young girls feel confident about using what is on the inside of them to make the best of their lives. If girls could use their inner strength and make informed decisions, learn how to be independent financially and emotionally, and realize that they have it in them to take care of themselves and pursue their passions, IMAGINE how much better off our society as a whole would be. If girls have healthy relationships with THEMSELVES and love for themselves, then they can be capable of having a healthy and quality relationship with other people from friends, families, to love interests. That would make the world a more beautiful place.

Providing accessible resources and knowledge to girls will make a difference. The program I am assisting with is put on by Promising Connections. The Girl Empowerment Day Program in July is connecting girls with powerful mentors who are successful women, and providing them with knowledge about how to live healthy and happy lives. I’m so thankful that because I felt empowered to make a choice to attend a workshop that could help me, I met Tracy(Exec. director of Promising Connections, LLC) there. Because I met her, I have the blessing to be involved with her amazing program to help empower girls.