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You Can't Tell Me What To Do You're Not My Granddaughter, Funny Grandpa Shirt, Grandfather Shirt, Gifts for Grandpa from Granddaughter She was shot in the head, alongside two other girls, while on a school bus. Amazingly, she survived and was brought to the UK for further treatment following life-saving surgery in Peshawar. Since then, she has continued to speak out about the right to education and is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, aged just 17. About us – The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives and expanding opportunities across Asia and the Pacific. Learn about our impact, approach, mission, vision, and values. Rosie The Riveter Shirt, Girl Power, We Can Do It, Girls Rule, Equality, Support Strong Women, Feminist Tee, Equal Rights, Inspirational Tee These people gave me courage and inspired me to keep going, at a time when I was facing my own difficulties. I could have chosen any of the amazing athletes to appear in the Girls Can Do Anything gallery of inspirational women, but I wanted to find someone who we perhaps hadn’t heard of yet. I wanted to find an ordinary hero who might help inspire us lesser mortals – someone to tell us that you don’t have to be the best in the world to be worthwhile. You just have to be the best you can be.

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Malala Yuousafzai captured the attention of the world when she came to the UK for medical care following an assassination attempt in Pakistan when she was just 15 years old. This was no random shooting. Malala had been speaking out about life under Taliban rule since she was eleven years old. She wrote a blog under a pseudonym and was featured a New York Times documentary in 2010. She gave interviews and speeches in print and on television and was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize. The 2012 Olympic Games marked a turning point for me in terms of disability awareness and the television campaign that marked the run up to the games was a major influence in the writing of Girls Can Do Anything. For the first time, the Paralympic games were given the airtime they deserved and the achievements of people with disabilities were publicly and noisily applauded across the nation. Here were people who were not made less by their disabilities, they were shown to be so much more. They were billed as superhumans who have accomplished phenomenal feats despite a whole host of obstacles including a wide range of disabilities. This is a picture book that has the potential to open up important discussions with both girls and boys about equality and opportunity. Girls Can Do Anything would be an excellent choice for reception and KS1 classroom libraries.

A diverse selection of girls is represented in the pictures, including wheelchair users, girls wearing head coverings and a girl with no hair at all. What they have in common is that they are all happily absorbed in whatever it is that they wish to do. You might be surprised to discover that the first female cosmonaut went into space 55 years ago in 1963. That’s just two years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space when he orbited the Earth in the spacecraft Vostok. There is no single or simple approach to this mission, but roundtable participants all agreed that education is the key for these girls, and that they need holistic support, including tuition, soft-skills development, and leadership training, so they can rise to their full potential. We shared our successes and challenges, as well as the stories of girls in our programs who have achieved things far beyond our hopes. We talked about collaborating to maximize our resources, support one another, and inspire more action for girls’ education, and we discussed the progress that has been made and the many people who are working in their own way to support girls and young women who have been left behind due to circumstances beyond their control. I enjoyed Girlguiding so much as a child and felt accepted within the group. I wanted other girls to have that experience too. And now, nearly 45 years later, I’m still volunteering with Girlguiding – currently running a Rainbow group with 40 girls aged 4-7.

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Miss 4 really enjoyed this and I liked the references at the end to real women and their accomplishments. Customized Teacher Shirt, Teachers Can Virtually Do Anything Tee, Preschool Teacher T-shirt, Educator Shirt, Kindergarten Teacher Shirt She said: “The girl would become distressed when we sang. But with the adding of actions she became more comfortable with our campfire songs and with us singing Happy Birthday. Our brand purpose is at the heart of everything we do - we help all girls know they can do anything. When discussing her reasons for wanting to write Girls Can Do Anything, author Caryl Hart explains 'I realised that, as a children’s author, I had an opportunity to show our youngest children that the world belongs as much to girls as it does to boys. I wanted to demonstrate that girls are allowed and entitled to create a space for themselves wherever they choose - whatever their interests or passions may be, and for that to be okay.'I really like that this book focuses on many things you wouldn’t ‘expect’ girls to do, but inspires them they can do anything they put their mind to because ‘I’m a girl! I’m fantastic, I’m strong, brave and proud’ (this could be chanted with the girls in the class too)