Who We Are

Bridging the gender equality gap since 2012

We provide medically accurate and evidence-based comprehensive health and sexuality education to advance gender equality by fostering empowered, healthy, and informed decision making in adolescent girls and young women.

Pavita Singh

I was about 7, when I started to tap into my inherent power, bear the audacity to embody my being a girl. At 13, I knew I’d signed up for something bigger than me. The women ahead of me, demonstrated how to navigate my odds.

I borrow from the words of Ellen Goodman, “I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who I are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed, by those who struggle to make one small difference after another”.

Working with and for girls,at GHE is a unique proportion of fun, curiosity, audacity, love, care, brilliance and friendship. Like Jody Williams, “I Believe that words are easy. I believe the truth is told in the actions we take. And I believe that if enough ordinary people back up our desire for a better world with action, I believe we can, infact, accomplish absolutely extraordinary things”.

Girls are Extra-Ordinary

Sankara Gitau - GHE Executive Director

Who Is GHE?

Girls Health Ed is a nonprofit organization founded, operated, and led by women of color whose mission is to advance gender equality by fostering empowered, healthy, and informed decision making in adolescent girls and young women through comprehensive health and sexuality education.

Where Are We?

We serve adolescent girls and young women, ages 8+, from underserved communities in the United States and internationally. We currently operate in Washington, DC; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; and New Orleans, LA and in Kenya (Nairobi, Nyamira, and Kogelo). We’ve also hosted pilot programs in Hyderabad, India and Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.

Girls Health Ed in Kenya
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Why There?

These locations were chosen due to the high rates of such conditions as HIV/AIDS and other STIs, early and unwanted pregnancy, gender-based violence, and obesity. We conduct our programs in locations where we see a demand, where we receive requests, and where we have a strong network of Teaching Fellows, partners, and volunteers.

Sarah Hillware

How We Started and How It’s Going

“Feminism is not feminism unless it’s intersectional. Socio-economic status, race, religion, geography, sexuality, and other factors underlie whether or not someone can have the equal opportunity. No one is free unless everyone is free. If one person is vulnerable, everyone is vulnerable. When we founded Girls Health Ed, the founding board and I started with low-income Black and Latinx adolescents first. We know that interventions work best when we start with those who are traditionally last.”

Sarah Hillware – GHE Founder and Board Chair

Sarah Hillware

Our Values

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Join our efforts to improve the lives of girls and young women through comprehensive health and sexuality education. Thanks to your continued support, we can expand our reach and help even more girls and young women change their lives.

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