Girl Power Foundation, Inc.

A Message on Super Bowl Sunday...

Did you Know...?

The Super Bowl is is the largest trafficking event in the United States.

The Super Bowl brings an 80% increase in trafficking to the area in which it is held.

During the Super Bowl, many women and girls who are victims of trafficking are required to meet a "Quota" of how many clients they need to service per day. 

The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the U.S. is 12 to 14-years-old. Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children 

How can we Prevent this?

By providing girls with strong role models and teaching them the importance of building a strong self-esteem, these girls will learn the power of resilience and learn to turn their negative stories into positive achievements. Simply by being a positive figure in a young girls life we can prevent them from becoming a victim to statistics and human trafficking.

-Today a parent's whole life may have changed because they found out their child was diagnosed with pediatric cancer. 

-Today a child's whole life may have changed because they found out they have pediatric cancer.

Many children with pediatric cancer live day to day hoping that they can make it to the day where a cure for their disease is discovered. 

Please help us end pediatric cancer and purchase a $3 GRL-PWR Goes Gold Bracelet 

One of our GRL-PWR activites is the Letter to Myself.  

When the activity is done with the GRL-PWR girls, they are able to reflect on the accomplishments they made and compliment themselves as if they were writing a letter to their best friend. 

When the activity is done with GRL-PWR mentors, we often ask them to pick a specific age to write to or to reflect on their childhood- how would they speak to their GRL-PWR Mentee?

Through this activity, they are able to uncover their story that they can then use to empower others.  They are able to reflect on the obstacles they have overcome and they are able to recognize their resilience. 

Below is a letter from our recent GRL-PWR Chat: 

"Dear Self,

Beautiful was the first long word you learned to spell. With the help of your mother, you began to spell the word any chance you had. On the other hand it was a word neither of you understood. A word you never heard associated with your name. A word you let society define. Your entire life you hated yourself and you never felt good enough. A childhood gone because of lies.

Friend, I wish I would have told you that you were beautiful, amazing, and unique; that you could have had positive memories. That your identity was not in the mirror, the words of man, or the negative voices in your head. I wish you could have bypassed the years of torment, sin, and hate. I wish that you would have just walked into the identity God gave you. I wish you could have known the calling you have how significant your life is. Because I can’t go back, I want you to appreciate your story and save another child’s life. 

  A Beautiful Woman"