Girl Up

Girl Up is a worldwide campaign launched by the United Nations Foundation in 2010 that aims to incentivise young women and girls to act as leaders in the fight for gender inequality.
The Girl Up initiative has been present in our school as a social service club since 2021. Our school’s Girl Up club was founded by a group of passionate young women that were rallied to the Girl Up initiative aiming to inspire more girls to engage with the cause. Today, the Girl Up team at TBS is comprised of 19 members from all year groups, each with diverse backgrounds and experiences with the cause.
The club was created as a means to spread awareness about gender equality to young women in different communities around Rio and to inform them on global matters that are most relevant to the fight for gender equality. Over the past few years, the club has scaled up its direct involvement with the young women of Rio. The club has launched numerous campaigns to draw attention to the initiative and the role that anyone can play.
Recently, Girl Up TBS has been a part of several major partnerships with relevant institutes and initiatives. The team played a crucial role in their partnership with the ‘absorvendo amor’ institution, which raises money for sanitary towels for low income women, and their latest event together provided the young women at the Darcy Vargas school with sanitary towels and a lecture on menstrual poverty. Furthermore, the Girl Up volunteers raised more than 15,000 R$ to support an initiative to help women struggling with infertility to have children and thus helped create multiple new families. Moreover, Girl Up played a key role in a project with ‘protea’ which successfully raised 7,000 R$ to aid women battling breast cancer to receive adequate treatment.
Girl Up is an incredible initiative that is a driving force to forging a more just society and a brighter future. Our school’s Girl Up club has had significant successes and their accomplishments are remarkable. The amount of women that they have helped is inspiring. Join TBS’ Girl Up club and be part of something truly great!