May 2013
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girltanker Spotlight: Noreen Bautista
Check out this guest blog post by Noreen Bautista of Jacinto & Lirio! Her venture transforms a Filipino weed into high eco-fashion.
It’s very insane for someone fresh out of college to plunge in the world and build a social enterprise startup. But that’s what we did!
That’s the story behind Jacinto & Lirio.
It really all started as a college thesis. My co-founders...
girltanker Spotlight: Laurin Hodge
Check out this guest blog post by Laurin Hodge of Mission Launch & The Returning Citizens Project! Her venture turns former inmates into entrepreneurs and innovators.
I totally never planned to be this person; yet, I did not pick prison, prison picked me.
As a result of living the incarceration life cycle (pre-trial, trial, post-trial, incarceration and re-entry) with my Mother, I fully...
girltanker Spotlight: Karima Grant
Check out this guest blog post by Karima Grant of ImagiNation Afrika! Her venture uses play to churn out Africa’s next batch of creative and radical leaders.
Friends!
SO excited to be joining the Girltank global family and having the opportunity to connect with you, fellow changemakers and dream-believers!
In advance, thank you for taking the time this month, to get to know me, my team...
girltanker Spoglight: Faiza Hajji
Check out this guest blog post by girltanker Faiza Hajji! Her projects IFASSEN and Dar al Amal aim to jumpstart a green economy in Morocco.
Don’t tell me one single woman can’t change the world. If I had thought so, nothing would, indeed, have changed. But I never stopped believing that I could do something, with my own means, to improve the situation of my region of origins.
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girltanker Spotlight: Celeste North
Check out this guest blog post by girltanker Celeste North! Her venture NuFlick promotes Latin-American culture with an innovative video-on-demand platform.
I’ve always liked movies. For me, they are one of the best ways for someone to express feelings, ideas or to share what they consider important. But film is the most collective of all arts, thus it requires a lot of money. Painting, making...
Our Crowdfunding Platform Launches Today!
Women and girls with big dreams for social change! Check out the first eight in our brand new crowdfunding class!
April 2013
2 posts
Our Crowdfunding Platform Launch - Only 6 Days...
We won!
We are the winners of the Women in the World “Mothers of Invention” Award sponsored by Newsweek/The Daily Beast & Toyota! Woo-hoo!
February 2013
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L'Oreal USA: Empowering Girls to Become S.T.E.M....
from the desk of girltank Cofounder, Sejal Hathi:
I believe that all girls are a powerful movement: a brilliant and unstoppable force that can solve even the world’s most intractable challenges, if only they are granted the tools and opportunity. For five years, I have worked to empower this movement, by founding two organizations, Girls Helping Girls and now girltank, to equip girls...
June 2012
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And the winners are...
Thank you again for your support during the 10,000 Names in 100 Days campaign. We said we’d reward a few of you for taking the time out to nominate. And now, we are proud to announce the winners!
When you submitted your stories or nominated someone, your name was tagged with a number in our big, comprehensive list. To select our prizewinners, we randomly picked numbers via the website...
May 2012
13 posts
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Reason #4: Why You Should Nominate a Changemaker...
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3 Nepalese Adventure Sisters: Lucky, Dicky and...
Inspiring sisters Lucky, Dicky and Nicky run 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking, which provides women guides and assistants for women trekkers through the Himalayas. They also run the nonprofit, Empowering Women of Nepal. Through it, they train disadvantaged local women (and men) to become guides.
Empowering Women of Nepal (EWN), the non-profit arm of 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking, was founded to...
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Indie Filmmaker Sara Liza Baumann Tells Stories...
Sara Liza Baumann combines her love for film, media and the arts with sound research, to tackle world issues that matter most. Right now, she’s curious about how people around the world cope with terminal illnesses. What healing methods do people living with AIDS in South Africa, cancer in Budapest or chronic diseases in Vietnam use?
In her own words:
“It was a wonderful winter...
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Jos Dirkx Kicks Balls!
Jos Dirkx runs Girls and Football SA. Her goal: To give a voice to female football players in South Africa and grant them a chance to share their passion, along with the hardships they have encountered as female athletes, with their communities.
Jos was born in Rio de Janeiro and has since been traveling the world with her parents and brother. She has lived in Brazil, Bangladesh, Spain, Senegal,...
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MTV Voices Featured Nominee: Cat Jaffee Lives with...
She quit her job, packed her bags and moved to Kars, Turkey to live with nomadic beekeepers. Check out her inspiring story here:
http://voices.mtv.co.uk/2012/05/inspired-beeing/
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MTV Voices Featured Nominee: Tehrene Firman Speaks...
Tehrene, who founded the online magazine Love Twenty, talks about the pressure women put on each other to look a certain way in her MTV Voices blog.
http://voices.mtv.co.uk/2012/04/body-wars/
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April 2012
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Eco-Ingenuity: Jacinto & Lirio
Patricia, Noreen and Anne (l. to r.) show off a line of handbags from their flagship company, Jacinto & Lirio.
J&L is an eco-friendly enterprise that showcases the Filipino innovation of plant leatherization, a process that turns pesky weeds like the water hyacinth into a leather-like material, which J&L then transforms into fashionable and functional statement handbags.
J&L...
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Featured Nominee: Emily May - iHollaback Girl!
Emily believes YOU have the power to end street sexual harassment. So she co-founded iHollaback to give women, girls and LGBTQ individuals the tools to break the silence with the help of mobile technology.
How does it work?
iHollaback allows victims the chance to upload words and pictures, and to literally indicate on a map, where they experienced harassment in public spaces. Victims can...
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girltank is looking for a CTO
Are you a proud tech geek? If so, we want you! We are looking for a dynamic CTO to join the girltank team. And the best part? You start with an all-expense paid trip to Santiago, Chile to code Phase 1 of our website! Applications due by April 20th, 2012.
For more details: www.blog.girltank.org/careers
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Featured Nominee: Kat Chua - 'Immigrant' Is Not an...
“I have lived in the U.S. for 23 years, and 20 of those years I spent living in fear of being sent ‘home’ as an undocumented immigrant. The day after I received my legal resident status in 2008, I purchased a stack of tank tops and fabric paint and began my ‘Immigrant is not an F-word’ t-shirt campaign.”
“A couple of months later I was at the May Day...
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Nominee Moniza Khokhar Featured on MTV Voices
Check out her story here:
http://voices.mtv.co.uk/2012/03/10000-names-moniza-khokhar/
March 2012
17 posts
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Top 3 Reasons Why We Love Sarah Alderson and Why...
#3 It’s a good one.
#2 It’s an even better one.
#1 It’s the best one yet.
Okay, and now for the actual reasons…
#3 She left a great-paying job to travel around the world and search for the perfect place to live - all with her husband and two year-old in tow. (She’s got chutzpah! FYI, her destination of choice: Bali!)
#2 She sat on beach after beach and in...
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Featured Nominee - Adaku: She's Got Soul
She’s an activist, healer, teacher and performance artist – all rolled up into one. Her site, www.soularbliss.com, wants to calm and nurture the collective spirit. She believes inner healing is crucial for everyone - especially social entrepreneurs who need to clear their inner demons in order to most effectively transform the world. Currently, Adaku is working to bring awareness about LGBT...
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girltanker Aarti: Slum Girl Whisperer
Aarti Naik, 24, lives in Mulund West, a suburban slum area of Mumbai, India, and runs SAKHI: Girls’ Education Project, an organization that helps urban slum girls exercise their right to an education.
Four years ago, Aarti was a school dropout, living in the slum with no thought to the future. But with the help Ashoka’s Youth Venture program, which helps young people launch their own...
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Featured Nominee - Yara: It's Not Easy Being Green
Yara started The Green Initiative (www.thegreeninitiative.me/) when she was 16 years-old because she wanted to clean up the Middle East.
Well, actually she wanted to raise awareness about climate change in the Middle East, especially in a place like Qatar, which purportedly has the highest emissions of greenhouse gas in the world. Now 19, Yara has managed to do a few actual cleanups, among other...
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WatchWhen she was younger, Esther Odhambo was grabbed by a posse of guys who would have raped her if not for the help of a male passerby. Since then, this 26-year-old has become passionate about stopping gender-based violence. She works with Mathare Youth Talented Organization and Singles Mothers and hopes one day to open her own center as a safe-haven for women and girls.
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WatchJasmeen Patheja heads up Blank Noise, a network throughout India that trains women to not give up their power to men intent on street sexual harassment and violence. Jasmeen proves through Blank Noise that there is power in looking and speaking back and that we don’t have to be afraid after all!
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WatchSapna Shahani, a documentary filmmaker from Bombay who works in Goa, started Women Aloud Videoblogging for Empowerment that gives young women the tools, equipment, and opportunity to create videos about community issues from their unique points of view.
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girltankers in action...
(from top to bottom:)
more girltankers in action…
Isabel (Germany) founded FonduPeru (http://www.fondoperu.org/), a foundation that pays all the school fees for villagers in Chiuchin to go to college in Lima.
Cheenee (Philippines) developed Sumilao Corn Coffee (http://www.sumilaofarm.com) to help rural farmers in the Philippines use their surplus crops and make additional...
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WatchInna Hudaya (Jakarta, Indonesia) talks about her decision to start Samsara, a sex health education and abortion counseling organization, after her own traumatic abortion.
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MTV Voices
We are excited to announce our partnership with MTV Voices for our 10,000 Names in 100 Days campaign! We will be featuring some of the most amazing nominees from the campaign on their blog each week. To submit a blog entry for consideration…
RULES:
You must be officially entered into the 10,000 Names campaign: http://on.fb.me/10000names.
Entries should be 400 words or less.
You can...
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girltank manifesto
Hold these concepts to be self-evident…and you, as a female social entrepreneur and innovator, can accomplish anything…
Believe that you are capable and strong and that you can contribute powerfully to this planet.
Understand that your connections with other women make you stronger. Link hands with the women around you.
Infuse your work with enthusiasm and joy. In other words, lead with your...
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
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Featured 10,000 Names Nomination - Nigeria!
Adepeju Mabadeje, a Nigerian lawyer, founded the Brown Button Foundation (http://www.brownbuttonfoundation.org) to help curb high mortality rates and promote women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Nigeria.
We’ll feature a new nominee each week. Stay tuned for more!
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girltankers...
(From the top:)
Meet a few of the faces of girltank.
Allie who supports NGOs in Cambodia with The Pari Project;
Emmie who teaches girls sex education in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi with Miss Koch Kenya;
Tieza who runs ChangeLab, a social enterprise that supports farmers in the Philippines in getting their products to market;
And Lamia who fights against discrimination and...
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our hopes for young women everywhere!
We founded girltank because we believe in the power and beauty and magnificence of young women around the globe. We hope that your face lights up… …with laughter and recognition as you read stories of some of the incredible young women featured in our blog. We hope you think of these innovators and changemakers as sources of inspiration and potential supporters of your own visions,...
