Empowering Teenage Girls

Girls born in the Israeli society's family or at the edge of their own body are faced with the challenge of normal difficulties beyond poverty, ignorance and abuse. They also suffer from gender stereotypes of inequality and low self-esteem. This hinders the natural motive for the girl's success and hurts her confidence.

WIZO promises to fight this phenomenon and make these girls believe in themselves and demonstrate their full potential. Otzma Tze'irah is a program of 17 ninth grade girls and all ethnic groups from all over the country. Due to families and the social environment, girls have low academic achievement, low social integrity, and lack self-esteem. Usually, they show emotion, behavior, eating disorder

Otzma Tze'ira girls do not have a support system to eliminate negative emotions and actions. Without plans to show their choices and values, these girls drop out of school, cause self-destructive behavior, and the risk of proceeding to the next generation will be very high.

At Otzma Tze'ira, the girl got a complete hug - body and emotion. As counselors listened to what they said and the basic physical comfort of warm food and safe places, the girls began to open up. They understand their personal values ​​and women's values ​​in society as a whole. Their view of the world has changed and their view of the future is changing. A series of lectures, seminars, and intimate dialogue on topics such as domestic violence, gender issues, body images, etc. will help girls unleash their initial ideas and achieve their goals. Travel, seminars and group activities will promote social skills and teamwork, and rehabilitation programs will be tailored to each group. Feedback and evaluation show that participants' social skills, academic performance, and entrance examination have improved. To fully integrate into Israeli society, the ratio of subscribing to IDF and completing services is important for graduates.

Otzma Tze'ira gave up the girl and succeeded to show them that their future is worth fighting. WIZO plans to expand the program to 30 branches in 2014. This will allow us to save another 400 girls each year.

Philipp is one of many game leaders in BRAC's Youth Empowerment and Livelihood (ELA) program in sub-Saharan Africa. This gives girls social and economic abilities and provides a safe social space. Girls meet each day, extend their life skills, guide each other and help shape each other's desired future. After her local ELA club was good at being a mentor for her girl of this age Piri applied for a position of play leader. She was accepted, followed by intensive training for 5 days. So she learned game based learning, social - emotional learning, creating game materials to enhance the classroom module, and how children deal with emotions. Today, she uses these skills to shape the youth's mind and the future of her own country.

In her book "American Girls: Secret Life of Social Media and Teenagers", Nancy Jo Sales vividly explained how today's girls are becoming victims of the large-scale objectivity of social media It is. The details are bloodshed. Based on my own experience, I have interviewed and tied up with teenagers in social media for the past few years. In her book, Nancy believes Silicon Valley 's "boys genius" who has the same will contributed to the country through their established social network. There is no doubt that Silicon Valley is the origin of some of these networks, but it is not a unique fraternity mentality or control. In recent years, from Whisper in Venice to Yik Yak in Atlanta, we saw that social networks from all over the country are affecting teenagers at a level that has never been before.

I hope that researchers will continue to research about the interrelationship between (true) sex education and general sexual health, pregnancy rate, sexually transmitted diseases, etc. at puberty. I think we need to make love in the classroom as a way to give young girls and boys the power. I already have enough religious rights to decide our course. I would like to know more why MUD (copper wire only, not Milena) is not being advertised as the most safe and effective contraceptive practice for most women. Many other forms of birth control and side effects of hormones related to these methods are the causes of many problems of women I know. Before I was 25 years old, no one of my primary care providers told me anything besides oral contraceptives.