Selected to lead as part of Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) (April 11-12, 2014), 15-year-old Area marvel Helen Kassa – an emerging social entrepreneur – wants to stem the increasing high school dropout rate for girls in the United States, while getting girls into schools around the world. She is launching a campaign to raise $50,000 to fund a high school dropout prevention project here in the U.S. and to increase access to education in Ethiopia as the first stop in her global initiative to increase access to education opportunities for girls worldwide. Helen wants to turn ‘high school drop-outs’ and ‘left-outs’ into ‘global drop-ins.’
As founder of a foundation for education access, Helen established Girls Lead Forward, a program that is intended to provide incentives for girls to stay in school in the USA by utilizing their life experiences and their work in global volunteerism of helping girls worldwide gain access to education as credits toward graduation. Helen is asking the public to support her efforts through donations, grants and sponsorships because as she stated, “when girls lead forward, the world moves forward.”
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