Drawing Competition at Hamara Foundation

An environment day was organized at Hamara Foundation (which is one of our NGO partners in Mumbai). A drawing competition themed “Protecting our Environment” was held to mark the day.

The enthusiastic Goal participants were asked to express their thoughts on nurturing and protecting our environment. In all the fun and frolic, we did see some interesting and thought provoking ideas coming from the group.

And of course, the judge (one of our volunteers from the Bank) had a tough time in selecting the top 3 drawings!

Nalamdana: Welcome to Goal!

We are pleased and proud do welcome our newest Goal partner in India (and first in Chennai) to the programme. Nalamdana works to empower communities in Chennai and will be rolling out Goal in partnership with Naz and SCB staff.

Stay tuned for our official Chennai launch.

Start with a Girl!

"The health of adolescent girls is everyone's business. We all need to step up to the plate to embrace this ambitious agenda." If you wanna know why then you might want to take a look at this fascinating report!

Beyond Sport News

A few months ago Goal was proud to win the Beyond Sport Award. Now Here is an exciting new article about us and our new programs!

Spotlight: Meet Sandhya

We are so proud of Sandhya for being selected to play for the Delhi team in the School National Games which will be held at Chattisgarh! Sandhya has been part of the Goal programme for the past two years, and joined as a Coach in August 2009.

“The programme brought about a lot of change in me. Earlier I was very bossy and would sometimes bully others as well. Now I understand that everyone has the right to speak and express his or her point of view, which need not match with mine but are equally important.”

Sandhya had always been a prankster at school and was known to be a troublemaker by her teachers and schoolmates. However, as she became involved in Goal, many underlying leadership qualities in her started showing as she started taking initiative in netball and attended all the sessions. She would constantly ask questions and was completely committed and involved in the programme. Her teachers were very happy to see that her behavior and attitude towards her teachers and friends also started to change with her participation in the Goal activities. This is what her school-principal had to say:

“Since Sandhya has been part of Goal there has been a tremendous change in her. She used to always be in the bad books with her teachers. Now she has improved her communication and social skills and is polite and gentle as she speaks. She has shown great leadership qualities as I watch her teaching netball to the new Goal participants”. Ms Shikha Pal, Principal, Deepalaya Govindpuri School

Global Girl News: 21 October

**A new feature where we find news and programmes from around the world and share them with you - Comment below if you have any suggestions!**

-Do you really believe that “Together We Can Change the World”? Then perhaps you might be interested to take part in this really exciting forum that will be held next October.

-Here is an interesting list of what can be done by/through young girls in order to end poverty. What else do you think should be added to the list?

-'Investing in women and girls is the key to ending global poverty’. It definitely is. Check this article out to find out why!

- ‘Girls Count’! This is an excellent online-resource for those who are interested to know why girls are important to the world!

-This is a very interesting article on young Chinese girls and HIV/AIDS. It suggests that the number of 15-24 year old girls who have been infected with HIV/AIDS is rapidly increasing. However, despite insufficient information on sex-segregated data, the author comes up with new speculations on what is going on. If you are interested to learn more check it out here.

Have you joined the Girl Revolution?

A great article on WorldPulse with some great resources!