![]() ![]() She was one of more than 4,000 young people who attended the virtual Girl Up 2021 Leadership Summit on July 13 and 14. She's also been lobbying the government to provide free menstrual products in schools - and hosting virtual events on gender equality as a leader for the U.N.-sponsored group Girl Up.įor girls like Basso, 19, being a teen and an activist is a balancing act. If you ask Giovanna Basso, a teen activist from Brazil, what she's been doing in the pandemic, she'll tell you she's been listening to the South Korean pop group BTS, watching Netflix to improve her English and writing letters in calligraphy to her friends. ![]() ![]() Giovanna Basso, Mofiyin Onanuga, Emma Fetzer, Joanne Lee They attended Girl Up's virtual conference last week, which featured Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai as a guest speaker. From left: Giovanna Basso, Mofiyin Onanuga, Emma Fetzer and Joanne Lee are teen leaders for the U.N.-sponsored gender equality group Girl Up. ![]()
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