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I am excited to announce that Girls Growing Education has applied to be considered for the UNHCR [The UN Refugee Agency] Innovation Accelerator. We are deeply inspired to explore how our EdTech device/program can support students that have escaped persecution, climate and/or conflict related stressors and live in refugee camps where internet connectivity is severely limited. Partnering with the UNHCR would allow us to strengthen safeguarding systems, connect education to long-term academic and economic pathways, and equip students with the necessary skills to achieve well beyond limitations set by geographic and environmental circumstances.

We are ready to scale and help those most in need. With twenty-eight labs reaching more than 22,400 students with roughly 3,500 active at any given time, our engagement data is captured at the student level and completion rates on structured pathways exceed 50 percent.

Let’s bring innovative solutions forward. We hope that the UNHCR Innovation Accelerator can play a part in realizing this shared vision.

Today on the 56^th anniversary of Earth Day, every action matters.

In this moment, showing up is about standing up to those who aren’t working in the interests of humanity. As stated at earthday.org, “Progress does not happen in silence. It happens when people show up.”

At Girls Growing Education, we see the power of young, educated minds as a means to level the playing field and reclaim the inalienable rights to a clean, safe planet.

Our students are showing up. They are learning every day on devices that close the digital divide and provide world-class educational opportunities with proven, scalable modules of learning.

Show up, stand up and be counted. Help us democratize knowledge production so that children realize their full potential to be the catalysts of positive human, economic and societal change. United in knowledge, these bright voices will yield their power to out-science formidable obstacles of climate change. And they’ll powerfully advocate for their dignity and the rights bestowed upon every child around the world: the right to a healthy planet Earth.