YOUNG WOMEN RISING:
Could Empowering Girls Transform the World?
“If you add up educating girls and family planning, empowering women is the number one solution to address global warming.”
Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
Vice President, Project Drawdown
2022 broadcasts on Link TV:
• Sunday Dec 11 — 5:00pm PT (8:00pm ET) & 8:00pm PT (11:00pm ET)
• Monday Dec 12 — 9:00am PT (12:00pm ET) • Tuesday Dec 13 — 2:00pm PT (5:00pm ET)
OVERVIEW
Around the world, people are finding creative ways to educate and empower young women–creating cascading benefits for families, communities, and the world.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Neema Namadamu and her NGO, Hero Women Rising combine social media and grass-roots activism to overcome poverty, war and patriarchal traditions. In Dallas, Texas, where the high school pregnancy rate is 50 percent above the U.S. average, teens are making films to educate each other on reproductive choices for NTARUPT’s annual film festival.
Winner
2021 Los Angeles Emmy® Winner
for Education/Information
GLOBAL MOSAIC's Young Women Rising: Could Empowering Girls Transform the World? episode was presented a Los Angeles Area Emmy® Award on July 24, 2021 in the category of Education/Information programs for its premiere broadcast on the public television station KCET in Burbank, CA. The competition was steep, so it was especially thrilling for our team to be recognized!
To GET INVOLVED in educating and empowering young women, VOLUNTEER or DONATE to the organizations featured in this episode: Hero Women Rising, NTARUPT–North Texas Alliance to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy in Teens, Women Deliver, World Pulse and the Texas Women’s Foundation.
PARTICIPANTS
LEARNING RESOURCES
ORGANIZATIONS
VIDEOS
See the cascading benefits of empowering girls through two very different animated scenarios.
Source: GirlEffect.org
Ntarupt 2018 Student Film Contest Entrant By Jack Macy at Richardson High School.
Source: NTARUPT's film festival youtube channel
Tackling the barriers girls face in completing secondary education.
Source: Girl Effect
When women enter politics, they make a difference. So why are so few in the highest ranks of power? | Source: Trust.org
ARTICLES
ORIGINS
Neema Namadamu, Founder Hero Women Rising
Paul Freedman, Congo (DRC) Segment Director, Producer & Camera
In addition to the production work our Global Mosaic team, we are deeply grateful for the following participant content and story contributions:
The Democratic Republic of Congo segments of this episode were adapted from the documentary Merci Congo and other videos produced by Neema Namadamu, founder of Hero Women Rising, and filmmaker Paul Freedman.
Neema Namadamu had long been doing ground breaking work through her organization, Hero Women Rising, a U.S. non-profit that supports women and girls in eastern Congo (DRC). Paul worked closely with Neema to tell her story. Their high quality productions were heartfelt and required courage to film in dangerous areas and they graciously made their content available to this episode of Global Mosaic, without which the program would not have been as powerful.
NTARUPT (The North Texas Alliance to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy in Teens) provided dynamic footage from the annual film festival that founder Terry Greenberg created.
And WOMEN DELIVER provided powerful video footage from their June, 2019 conference. Special thanks to Pierre Peyrot, producer of that media.