Offline and Overlooked: Why Internet Access Is a Girls’ Rights Issue

Offline and Overlooked: Why Internet Access Is a Girls’ Rights Issue

Last summer, our Girls Learn International chapter set out with a mission to support girls in finding their own voices to lead their communities on issues they cared about. We organized an international public speaking webinar with Sierra Leone Rising, which helped us reach 40 girls in villages in Sierra Leone. Even with nonprofit backing, internet barriers strained our capacity to communicate regularly, blurring the vision that had seemed so “d…