08/17/2026
At Girls Soccer Worldwide, we’ve learned something that has changed how we serve girls and their families. Poverty is rarely caused by one obstacle. It is the weight of many barriers stacked on top of one another.
A girl may want to stay in school. But if her family cannot afford food…then education just becomes another impossible choice.... as one example.
When a girl has a safe place to sleep, privacy to care for herself, food on the table, and a family who no longer has to choose between survival and education, something remarkable happens.
She begins to believe her future is worth investing in.
So, we don’t begin by asking ‘what we want to do’ or ‘what do we want to build.’
We begin by asking what is standing in her way?
Recently, we met a young woman whose future looked much like the generations before her.
No one in her family had continued school beyond seventh grade.
Her mother never had the opportunity to attend school at all.
Yet we saw something different. We saw potential.
As we got to know her family, we discovered that helping her stay in school would require more than a scholarship.
It would require removing the barriers that stood between her and the future she deserved.
The bathroom and home featured in this project aren’t the destination.
They’re part of the pathway.
When a girl has access to safety, education, health, nourishment and encouragement, self-worth she begins to see something that once seemed impossible: A future she can help write herself.
Today, you can help remove one more barrier by helping us complete this project.
JOIN OUR SUMMER CHALLENGE:
Dedicate your movement to helping girls finding their worth.
OR,
Your gift of any amount can help provide the safe home and bathroom this family needs while supporting the educational pathway that is helping rewrite a generational story.
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