PLAN
Because I’m A Girl

The poorest of the world’s poor are girls. Girls are educated far less frequently than boys, despite the beneficial effects of educating girls to the community being much greater than educating boys. We created the Facebook / online campaign asking people to Raise Their Hand and pledge to help more underprivileged girls get an education. The first film tells the real story of Sunshine, filmed in Manila in the Philippines just a couple of days after the 2012 flooding. The second film features PLAN ambassador Freida Pinto. At the culmination of the project, PLAN CEO Nigel Chapman presented the petition signed by millions for girls’ education to the Director General Irina Bokova at the United Nations.