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We Are the Girls creates lasting change with projects designed for and with girls.

Girls are ready to change the world — and now is our chance to harness this moment, and make huge strides for gender equality here and around the world! We believe in the power of girls and supporting their fight for gender equality is what Plan does. Now is the time.

Let’s fight gender inequality together!


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With your gift to Plan USA’s We Are the Girls campaign, you’ll join girls and their allies to create lasting change across the world with projects designed for and with girls, that affirm their strength and resilience. Girls have what it takes to lead the fight for gender equality, and your support can help amplify the movement!

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Girls vs. Stereotypes

As part of our We Are the Girls campaign, Plan International USA and our community of girls partnered with Unsplash, the internet’s source of freely usable visuals, to make sure that stock imagery portrays girls on their own terms. Now, Unsplash has updated their search algorithm to feature more photos of real, confident girls that break barriers and promote gender equality for fair representation.

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Read our research

How can girls make their voices heard, and help create the policies that affect their lives? As the world slowly emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, Plan’s 2022 State of the World’s Girls report is focused on young women’s political participation.

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Girls Out Loud

The girls who selected the winning photos for the Unsplash challenge are part of a group called Girls Out Loud. Through our private Instagram account, these girls safely share their thoughts and feelings about the experience of being a girl today — and talk about ways we can create change together.

If you identify as a girl and are between the ages of 13 and 18, we invite you to join this community

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Our progress

Girls are already making big strides toward achieving gender equality around the world! Read our 2022 annual review to learn more about Plan’s We Are the Girls campaign and its achievements, highlighting girls’ voices from Vietnam, the U.S., Senegal, Guatemala and beyond.

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We Are the Girls

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With your gift to Plan USA’s We Are the Girls campaign, you'll join girls and their allies to create lasting change across the world with projects designed for and with girls, that affirm their strength and resilience. Girls have what it takes to lead the fight for gender equality, and your support can help amplify the movement! Donations can support programs, innovation and infrastructure required to deliver our programs to girls and their communities in areas such as gender and youth equality, education, maternal and child health, humanitarian response, and skills and work.