{"id":4196,"date":"2010-09-30T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2010\/09\/30\/the-girl-effect"},"modified":"2017-10-06T06:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T12:45:09","slug":"the-girl-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">We at Build.Create.Kenya are always looking for creative, yet educational and inspirational ways to get the message across about the importance of education in poverty stricken areas of Africa. I discovered\u00a0the organization <a href=\"http:\/\/thegirleffect.org\/\">The Girl Effect<\/a>\u00a0and wanted to share their very creative animated video they have made to help spread the word.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Please help to support the work. Thank You.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at Build.Create.Kenya are always looking for creative, yet educational and inspirational ways to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"See the latest from My Walkabout!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7315],"tags":[589476293,589476282,2214,43345935,7402759],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","tag-589476293","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-africa","tag-support-kenya","tag-the-girl-effect"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99I7P-15G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3738,"url":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=3738","url_meta":{"origin":4196,"position":0},"title":"The success of Jane Wamboi","author":"My Walkabout","date":"January 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was in Nairobi last summer, I decided to sponsor two children's education for one year, including a daily meal. 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