2019 Goals for Girls Leadership Summit

Help send a girl to the 2019 Goals for Girls Leadership Summit in Nagpur, India!

A fundraising campaign for Goals for Girls

Are you interested in investing in the rising generation of Indian female youth leaders? Are you passionate about finding creative ways to respond to community problems? Do you believe in the importance of empowering and teaching our youth HOW to make positive change?

If so, we'd like to invite you to join us in providing a once-in-a-lifetime leadership development opportunity to 100 girls across India through the Goals for Girls Leadership Summit.

The 5th Annual Goals for Girls Leadership Summit

This January, Goals for Girls and Slum Soccer will be co-hosting the 5th Annual India Goals for Girls Leadership Summit in Nagpur with 100 select youth female leaders from across the country, all coming from marginalized communities. These 100 girls will undergo a selection process by sport for development organizations around the country, focusing on girls that show incredible leadership potential. This Leadership Summit will occur January 2nd through 5th. 

The Goals for Girls Leadership Summit uses soccer as a vehicle to teach leadership development through on and off the pitch activities. These activities focus on themes such as awareness, teamwork, communication, problem solving and goal-setting. This unique platform brings together girls from all types of cultural, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds, where differences are celebrated and offer valuable learning opportunities. 

"We Are the Change" Projects

Central to the Goals for Girls Leadership Summit is the development of "We are the Change" projects, where girls take the leadership lessons they learn and put to action through a year long project they will implement in their communities after the Summit. These projects follow a user-centered design approach to making thoughtful, informed, and intentional change to a community problem. In the past, girls have created projects tackling community problems such as drug abuse, lack of role models, plastic waste, domestic violence and gender inequality in schools and sports. 

Goals for Girls tracks the "We are the Change" projects throughout the year. We celebrate the successes and learn from the challenges that are presented during the journey. Goals for Girls encourages every girl to use the lessons they learn from sport to then "be the change" they wish to see in their communities.

We need your help to make this Leadership Opportunity a reality for the 100 girls selected for this experience. Will you join us in investing in the Indian female community leaders of tomorrow?

For reference, it costs:

$15 for train transport to and from the Summit for 1 girl

$40 for a girl to attend 1 day of the Summit (food, lodging, transport, and programming)

$160 to send one girl to the Summit (including food, lodging, transport, and programming)

We are so grateful for any contribution you are able to make for this important program. Investing in 1 girl is also investing in a community change project that will be implemented in the upcoming year. 





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