Huge news and so much to be grateful for on this update so read on!

Big, big thanks to the 206 amazing folks around the globe who donated £7,000+ to our book campaign for More Than One Voice. This is way beyond what our original goal was and we're just absolutely blown away about the impact we will be able to create – thanks to your generosity not only will we be able to publish our book, but we will also be able to run our Blended Learning Program in Jordan, Afghanistan, South Africa, Nigeria and Haiti this autumn. The book publishing process begins at the end of this month and we will be thinking of all you wonderful people that chose to support this effort.

Buckets of gratitude also to the team at Cisco Portugal who hosted a walk/run fundraiser on June 26 to contribute around $11,000 for Global Girl Project. We have to thank our board member Wendy Rasin for organizing this and everyone that participated.

We are super proud to share that our Nigerian partner Bestspring Foundation have run their first ever community event through the Blended Learning Leadership Initiative this past weekend. Check out their photos above. The topic was waste management and the girls were excited to be able to be leaders in their community. They shared that they each felt very privileged to be global girls and to be the first ambassadors for the Global Girl Program in Lagos, Nigeria and they are excited for us to be able to work with even more girls in the coming year. We are also excited that our Haitian partners Foundation TOYA are hosting three separate smaller events on teenage pregnancy, domesticity and gender inequality next weekend so stay tuned!!

Most importantly, we have to turn the spotlight on our amazing volunteers. GGP is a grassroots organization doing big things around the world. With a staff of one, we rely almost exclusively on the passion, the energy, and the ideas of our highly skilled volunteers.

· Here’s a huge shout out to the team that is our extraordinary book volunteers who brought this project into fruition: Mariana Alejandra Besana (Max), Paloma Aravaca Sinnige, Camila Gabrielle Frasson, Kate Novo and Ruksana Hussain.

· We also have Sherry from Disney in the US who is working with us on creating staff manuals, and Deepti who's going to start working with us creating an audiobook, and Uduak from Nigeria who is working with us to create an impact report, mentoring program protocols and also some workshops to deliver to our exchange scholars.

· We want to thank our impact group as well: Joe from Ripple Ventures, his intern Tom, Gill from UBS and Stella our board chair who are working with us to create an impact report. We cannot run without our volunteers and we want to really send a lot of gratitude out to them.

We’ll leave you with a podcast called SheSlays that our director featured in so please take a listen here and share.

Much gratitude,
Julia Lynch, Founding Director.