The Girl Effect is about girls and boys and moms and dads and villages and towns and countries.

In the last old growth forest zone of Paraguay, 90% of girls are pregnant by age 14. Others are sold into the human trafficking trade, work in prostitution, married off at a young age, or working grueling hours taking care of the country's privileged class as maids and nannies. Our financially self-sustaining agroforestry school in Paraguay's Mbaracayu Forest Reserve empowers and provides a skill base for the country's poorest and most vulnerable girls to overcome extreme poverty.

Global Infancia will build sanitary facilities and install a new drainage system for Padres Unidos, a rural school in Carapegua, Paraguay. The new building will make it possible to maintain minimum standards of hygiene, reducing the risk of disease in the school and the wider community. In the long term increased access to sanitation facilities will transform the conditions for healthy learning, and positively impact on the overall development and emotional well being of 200 children and staff.