Introducing 'One Girl' which we have decided will be our adopted charity. It's Australian based and focuses on Sierra Leone. Here's a bit from their website, rather than me typing it all out and missing something: (www.onegirl.org.au)
When you educate a girl, she’ll change the world. Really? Yes, really. An educated girl is three times less likely to contract HIV / AIDS. When she receives education, she’ll marry later and have fewer, healthier children. For every extra year of schooling, her income will increase by 10 – 25 percent. Not only that, she’ll reinvest 90 percent of the money she earns back into her family.
Educating a girl has a ‘multiplier effect’. When you educate a girl, you educate her family. When her family is educated, so is her community. When her communities is educated, so is her country. We believe that educating girls is the key to a transformed world. We’re changing the world, one girl at a time.
We focus on empowering women and girls so that they can create and lead change in their communities. We believe that education and economic empowerment are vital when it comes to tackling the issues that women and girls face in Sierra Leone
So we at Venus Beach II, feel we have a responsibility to help, and as role models for other Womens' communities in Second Life, we have decided that in May, we will donate all donations and rental income from our tenants to the One Girl cause.. As you can see if you look at the website just $20 (L$5000) educates a girl for a month! Imagine how that can change lives!! We'll also be running a major fund-raising event sometime in May to help support 'One Girl'
Other than looking at the website you can also check out the You Tube Video below:
See you at the beach!
Laura :-)
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