This case study shows how Rise Up Together Youth Champion Ali Rivzi created an award-winning documentary short and street safety campaign to raise awareness about the plight of transgender people in Pakistan. Click here to read more.
Youth Champions Initiative WhatsApp Case Study
This case study shows how Rise Up Together Youth Champion, Gayatri Parameswaran created a WhatsApp messaging service to empower young people to seek healthy relationships, prevent gender-based violence, and avoid unwanted pregnancy. Click here to read more.
Youth Champions Initiative Animation Case Study
This case study shows how Rise Up Together Youth Champion Tinbit Daniel used animation to create a powerful TV series starring girl superheroes, providing Ethiopian girls with positive role models to combat bullying, child marriage, and teen pregnancy. Click here to read more.
2016 Youth Champions Initiative Evaluation
A 2016 evaluation demonstrates that Rise Up Together’s Youth Champions Initiative has been a life-changing experience for program participants that have advanced sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of marginalized youth in innovative ways. Youth Champions now enjoy greater recognition as leaders in this field and have built a supportive global network of SRHR leaders. Click here to read … Read More
SF Girls Festival Interview with Comcast
In an interview by Comcast, Rise Up Together Program Coordinator, Claudia Romeu talks about the advocacy workshop held by Rise Up Together at the first annual World Wide Women’s Girls Festival.
The Power of Youth – Girls and Boys – to Achieve the Global Goals
Rise Up Together Girl Leader, Achie Gezahegne Gebre talks about the importance of listening to and investing in youth alongside UN Foundation President & CEO, Kathy Calvin at the World Government Summit.
The Period Comics We Wish We Had When We Were Going Through Puberty
Rise Up Together Youth Champion & Pakistani sexual-health activist Samreen Shahbaz launched Menstrual Matters Comics in partnership with CFx Comics to provide a non-threatening, positive, accessible way for kids to learn about periods.
Photo Essay: Acting and Chatting to End Early Marriage in Malawi
Despite the significant step forward by the Malawian government in raising the minimum age of marriage from 15 to 18, Faith Phiri, Executive Director of Rise Up Together partner Girls Empowerment Network, talks about the work that must still be done to ensure elimination of the issue.
What Life Is Like When A Girl Marries At 11
Memory Banda, 19, was inspired to help end child marriage in Malawi after her sister was impregnated by a man at an initiation camp and forced to marry him.
Amelia M. Cooper
Amelia M. Cooper is the Executive Director of Aiding Disadvantaged & Traumatized Women & Girls in Liberia. She works with marginalized adolescent girls and women in Nimba County to empower and involve them in advocating for their rights through civic engagement. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from the University of Liberia.
