G.E.M.S & Jewels Empowerment Group. This organization truly embodies the qualities of Actionists® and we were proud to support (by donating books) to their annual Kickoff 2010 Celebration/Meet and Greet.

From co-founder Kara Norman: “This event launched our 2010 season and our theme is “Be the change you wish to see in the world” a popular quote by Mahatma Ghandi. Founder Adriane Simmons and I want to inspire our girls to be the leaders of tomorrow and to make a difference in their world! We want our girls to learn how to take the steps to put their passion to action. We are also focusing on introducing social change to our members and we are partnering with Girls For A Change to be the 1st Girl Action team in the Georgia area. I feel that by working with girls in our group and empowering them in many areas, we are tackling the root cause of low self esteem – of which I personally suffered from as a young teen girl.

During our event we also had a special ‘girl power guest’ – the 13 year old co-founder of sunkissedgirlz.com and online community for African-American girls. Alana Jones and her mom created this organization to help increase the self-esteem of African-American girls as a lot of images that Alana and her mom found in the popular teen magazines didn’t look like her. They decided to ‘be the change’!”  

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