"Save the Girl Child" was started by Gold Award Girl Scout Himani Kalra and is now a 501c3 nonprofit. As a female child in an Asian family, Himani witnessed the patriarchal mindset ingrained in Asian communities. While working in the slums with her grandparents every summer, she saw the difficulties faced by poor girls in accessing education, healthcare, and equal opportunity, and how this stunted their progress and perpetuated the cycle of gender-based poverty and infanticide. When a newborn infant girl was found discarded in the woods of a Georgia suburb near her home, she became determined to work for change.

Himani is an activist against female gendercide and is working for empowerment of marginalized girls through education and healthcare initiatives in the Clarkston refugee area of Georgia, USA, and the Bhalswa Slum District in Delhi, India. Through social media, gendercide presentations, book distribution, education supplies, vaccination camps, STEAM curriculum teaching, and a gradually expanding group of volunteers and schools in rural areas, Save the Girl Child is working to create a network to uplift the girl-child. 

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Click here to read her research report on female gendercide

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Click here to follow Himani's blog

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Save the Girl Child is dedicated to mobilizing youth advocacy against female gendercide and to ensuring that every girl, irrespective of her economic and social status, fulfills her right to education. We believe that we must strive to bring the power of literacy to marginalized girls to enable them to fight against gender inequality and progress in their individual paths to empowered independence.