A girl with an education is unstoppable—but barriers like gender discrimination, poverty, and exploitation prevent many girls from reaching graduation.

Our Girl Activist Fellows created the Power of Poetry campaign to amplify girls' voices about this issue for National Poetry Month and the Global Week of Action for Education.

Girls aged 11 to 22 from Afghanistan, India, Guatemala, Kenya, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, South Sudan, the U.K., and the U.S. submitted their work.

Sit with their pieces. Reflect on their messages. Then share their words because these girls deserve to be heard: #STFPowerofPoetry

The Power of Poetry campaign was created by the following Girl Activist Fellows*:

Zia Britton
Camille Campbell
Fatima Hammouda
Ekaterina Nizovtseva
Sameeksha Panda
Aliza Puri
Amna Quddus
Joshna Shobia



*The Girl Activist Fellowship program was formerly called the Youth Ambassador program.