10 x 10: educate girls | Justin Reeves | TEDxUnisinos

I work for a NGO partnership
for a girls education campaign called

10 X 10.

I had the opportunity to meet and learn

from hundreds of girls
from around the world

during the course of our campaign.

We created a multimedia campaign
focused on

spreading the word
to the farthest corners of the world

[about] the value that
an education that a girl receives has

on entire communities.

The cornerstone piece to our project is
a featured film, a major motion picture,

that I hope you'd all go to see
next spring in 2013,

called Girl Rising.

Another part of this process, though,
has allowed me to attend many events

that are focused on girls,
women empowerment, education,

and sometimes I even get the chance
to speak at them.

Something I find frightening, actually,

is that these events are
completely attended by just women.

In fact, sometimes,
I'm the only man attending.

So, I keep getting asked the same question
over and over, and over again,

and it's always phrased slightly differently,

and it's something like:

"Hey Justin... so as a man,

why do you think
it's important to educate girls?"

Or, "Justin, why is it so important
to speak out

for the rights of women and girls?"

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