Status of Women committee  This is the inaugural year, so we're busy planning for the festivities that will come on October 11. This is a Canada-wide celebration of girls. Everyone is affected by a girl in some way, shape, or form in their lives. It's really about raising awareness in the entire population

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Thanks for your support.

Status of Women committee  Yes, we have a partnership with smartwater, which is one of the brands under the Coca-Cola umbrella. They have challenged Canadian girls to be proud of being smart. It stems from the knowledge that the majority of girls would rather be called “stupid” than “fat”. From that insi

Status of Women committee  The program we have developed is a very strong skeleton and so the program is a generalist program at this point, but we do believe that these skills can be transferrable or adapted to various communities across the country, and that's our plan. It's in our plan to do various ada

Status of Women committee  We would absolutely appreciate it. We think that we have a very strong foundation. We have relationships in the aboriginal community, one laptop per child, for example. We have various different partnerships throughout the aboriginal community. We do believe it has to be 100% in

Status of Women committee  Once again, I think it's based on education. Therefore, whether it's taught in the school system or not, or at home, as an organization we are focusing on maternal health globally. Canada is part of that—especially with teens—and girls' sexual and reproductive health is one of th

Status of Women committee  Access for sure.

Status of Women committee  That's just a partner organization we've been in discussion with. Once again, this program is entirely collaborative—Girls Action Foundation, Girl Guides. We're bringing experts in because we don't need to reinvent the wheel. We want to manage our resources effectively. Bringing

Status of Women committee  Because I am a Girl is an initiative launched in 2009 to raise awareness of the issues and rights around girls. It started primarily in our work, because globally, we know that investing in girls is the most direct route to social change. That has been proven over and over, and p

Status of Women committee  Yes, on financial literacy, students, regardless of whether they are boys or girls, are graduating from high school without any sort of knowledge around managing a budget or credit. Financial skills in general are just not things they are taught in school or at home, so they are

Status of Women committee  We are working very hard to change that. In fact, one of the reasons the Toronto District School Board believes so strongly in our program is that we're bringing these life skills around conflict resolution, financial literacy, or conflict resolution and negotiating skills—knowin

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure at this point.

Status of Women committee  Yes, you're out of my scope here. I'm the director of community engagement.

Status of Women committee  But it is online. You can definitely go to plancanada.ca, and it's all very transparent.

Status of Women committee  We primarily work directly with the school boards. Our number one target is to work with school boards, and we have been highly successful by working through educators. In our pilot year, we have just over 300 clubs registered. That's primarily in Ontario. However, we have club r