Reading Girl Rising Club Raising Awareness of Global Issues

Reading Memorial High School’s local club Girl Rising is bringing a global movement to educate girls and change the world home to Reading with an International Day of the Girl Screening

Sunday, October 11th is International Day of the Girl. To celebrate, Girl Rising, supported by their founding partner Intel, is supporting thousands of events around the world that will shine the spotlight on the transformative power of girls’ education.

Girl Rising is a groundbreaking feature film that spotlights the stories of nine unforgettable girls born into unforgiving circumstances. The film captures their dreams, their voices and their remarkable lives. It is also a movement dedicated to empowering and achieving educational equity for girls around the world.

The film screening will take place at Reading Community Television on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 6:30 p.m.

This International Day of the Girl celebration will bring the community together to raise global visibility about the importance of educating girls. And, it aims to capture the attention of global policy leaders and inspiring them to include girls’ education on the post-­2015 United Nations agenda, an important step for achieving educational equality for girls.