According to Girl Up, a UN organization, 200 million girls never go to school. One in seven girls in developing countries is married off before she’s 15, and because many of their husbands are unfaithful, HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for women between the ages of 15 and 49. Many women will have four children by the time they’re 20. On this show, we are saluting global game changers, the people who are trying to improve the bleak reality for women around the world.
- Christiane Amanpour joins Katie to talk about Malala Yousafzai, a young girl who has become a moving symbol of oppression, hope and change.
- Malala Yousafzai is a young girl from Pakistan who was shot in the head after speaking out about her desire to obtain an education.
- John Wood is the founder of Room to Read.
- More than a decade ago, John Wood began a mission to improve literacy in the developing world, and 15,000 libraries later across 10 countries, he’s well on his way.
- ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts sat down with supermodel Christy Turlington Burns to talk about her life saving mission.
- Deborah Roberts tells Katie that Christy Turlington Burns is committed to ending maternal mortality across the globe.
- You probably know Anthony Edwards as Goose in “Top Gun” and Dr. Mark Greene on “E.R.”
- What you may not know is that as the chairman of Shoe4Africa, Anthony Edwards is empowering women and improving the health and well-being of thousands of people every day.
- Katie and Anthony Edwards take questions from the audience.
- Global Goods Partners is an organization co-founded by Catherine Shimony that is teaching women in the developing world how to translate their skills as artisans into money to support themselves, their families and their communities.
- Catherine Shimony shows off some of the goods from women around the world.
- Katie holds up a wallet made by a woman in Cambodia.
- This scarf is made by women in Afghanistan.
- Erin Merryn is a childhood sexual assault survivor turned child advocate and activist.
- Erin is calling for the passage of Erin’s Law, which requires that all public schools implement a prevention-oriented child sexual abuse program.
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