{"id":7380,"date":"2014-05-19T16:43:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pepyempoweringyouth.org\/?p=7380"},"modified":"2014-05-19T16:43:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:43:39","slug":"girls-rising-receive-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pepyempoweringyouth.org\/girls-rising-receive-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls rising to receive an education"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"PEPY\u2019s Dream Project Coordinator, Duth Kimsru, recently spent 4 days in Tokyo, Japan to attend the 5th<\/sup> annual film screening<\/a> and fund raising event for the Asian University for Women<\/a> (AUW). She was invited to be a guest speaker and met with corporate sponsors, individual donors, and embassy officials from around the world. The documentary, \u2018Girl Rising\u2019 <\/a>by Richard E Robbins was watched by over 200 people attending the event coordinated by the AUW Japan Support Committee. Girl Rising<\/a> is a global campaign for girls\u2019 education. The film portrays the daily struggle girls have to access education. The countries represented in this film are India, Egypt, Haiti, Ethiopia, Peru, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia. Kimsru had the opportunity of meeting Japan\u2019s First Lady, Mrs Akie Abe for a second time. She first had the privilege when she was studying<\/a> at AUW in Bangladesh in 2011. Mrs Abe is an advocate for AUW\u2019s mission, and expressed the importance of having female global leaders in Asia. The First Lady is a patron of the AUW fund raising committee spoke briefly at the event. A full day was scheduled to meet with corporate representatives from Toshiba, Toyota, Hitachi, and Minebea. Each time, Kimsru spoke about her life before attending AWU, what she has learned from university, and what she is doing now. The meetings were an opportunity to showcase the graduate students\u2019 success to potential and current corporate donors.
\n\"\"Kimsru said some of her best highlights included:<\/p>\n