Ruksana lives on the streets of Kolkata, India. Despite this, she excels in school, particularly in mathematics and geography. Photo provided by 10x1...
By Cathleen Falsani Religion News Service (RNS) In her 1968 poem, “The Speed of Darkness,” the late American poet Muriel Rukeyser penned the l...
However, statistics show if we educate girls, incredible things happen -- girls marry later, have fewer and healthier children, get jobs, provide for their families and move beyond poverty.
In the early winter of 2012, a twist of fate led me to 10x10 where I have since been tight-roping the synergistic line between media and activism. This is our Call to Action. Share the film and increase visibility.
Uplifting stories, star power, and impressive box-office stats without doubt. But can a documentary seen even in several hundred theaters actually translate into making a difference in traditional, and often patriarchal, societies thousands of miles away?
We've found the next must-see film on our list. "Girl Rising," a movie produced by the girls education campaign 10x10, tells the stories of nine y...
"Stories can conquer fear," Nigerian novelist Ben Okri once said. "They can make the heart bigger." There's a world of truth to that statement. As someone who comes from a long line of storytellers, I've always said that our lives are just long and rich stories, knit together over the years, that tell us not only about ourselves, but the human condition, as well.
This weekend I was fortunate to see two shows that starred two of the most vulnerable life forms: young girls in third world nations and animals.
If religion is just a scapegoat, who has the power to use it that way? Are those people keeping their girls down because they don't think girls could meaningfully contribute, because they're afraid of the competition, because they don't know who would take care of their children?
Just as we follow these stories or a presidential race, we should be consistently informed of the need for girls' education around the world.
By Bennett Marcus, Vanity Fair Photograph by Fairchild Archive. Jeff Zucker might be a broadcast-industry titan as the head of CNN, but what would ...
The documentary Girl Rising -- the title evokes uprising -- mixes urgency with great storytelling appeal. The latest moment of the feminist revolution is not about debating issues of women's equality in the workplace. It is about changing the world one girl at a time through education.
My husband and I are constantly struggling to get our children to realize how lucky they are to be living in the U.S. Prior to moving here, we spent five years living in China and traveling Asia, where we saw extreme poverty and witnessed many of the issues that children in developing countries face.
A child of the dump, on her way to college. It was a story that brought nearly everyone to tears. But not me. I was still skeptical. I was still reluctant to truly embrace something that was incontrovertibly true and unquestionably important.
From eradicating polio to eliminating the guinea worm, earnest efforts aim high to make fundamental change in developing societies. Yet very few efforts match the social, economic and political impact of educating girls.
"My argument in favor of educating girls is more practical. We should do it because it is an incredibly powerful tool for ending global poverty."
The triumphs of African-Americans (including women) and those of American women continue to be oddly connected by, among other things, sequential calendar celebrations.
Children will always learn to do what they want to learn to do. So, I'm going to bet on self-motivated, curious, creative little children. Give them access and they will come!
"Educate girls, change the world." That's the simple and powerful mission of the new documentary film and social action campaign Girl Rising.
Entrepreneurs and filmmakers are both visionaries. At the Sundance Film Festival it was evident that getting the two together to collaborate was going...
Educating girls is not just right, it's smart. The numbers add up, which is why we consider educating girls to be basic math.
NEW YORK -- CNN says it is starting a new unit to make feature-length documentaries to show both on television and in movies theaters. Its first proj...
