Because I am a Girl 2013: In Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Girls and Disasters

Released on International Day of the Girl 2013, this video is a visual representation of a study of the same title done by Plan UK (United Kingdom) on the difficulties faced by girls in disasters. According to Plan UK: "When a disaster strikes, everybody suffers, but particularly adolescent girls. In the struggle for survival, they simply become invisible. Together we can help girls transform their future." The video describes those difficulties and how girls are affected; it recommends consulting girls and empowering them to be a force for change. It then shows cases of girls beginning projects and programmes that help their situations and communities, such as a girl in the Philippines who campaigned to move her school out of a landslide zone and a girl in Bangladesh who developed an action plan for flood disasters in her community.