Guest Post: Do you support Gender Equality? Then Girl Guides Australia is calling for your help!

As part of Girl Guides Australia's response to The World We Want For Girls campaign we are running a petition calling on our government to support a separate post 2015 development goal to 'empower girls and women'. To help show our decision makers that Gender Equality is an important issue all over the world we are collecting signatures through an online petition. We are calling on gender equality supporters from all over the world to visit the petition, sign up and share it with their friends and family via social media. Please take 10 seconds to click for equality at http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/the-australian-government-and-opposition-support-post2015-un-goal-empower-girls-women-to-achieve-gender-equality Our aim is to collect as many signatures as possible by International Day of the Girl 2013 so we can help our Girl Guides take the lead in the fight for gender equality!

Girl Guides Australia is working hard to engage all our members in the Post 2015 Development Agenda my promoting the Gender Equality petition and My World survey to all our members, youth and adult. To try to catch the attention of the wider community we have started a social media campaign using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as creating our own campaign video on Youtube! We'd love you to jump on board and help us share the amazing work that Girl Guides and Girl Scouts all over the world do to promote gender equality too. You can check out our campaign video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF79oF2Rvrg&feature=em-upload_owner and see the information hub we have started on our national website here http://www.girlguides.org.au/news-events/news-coverage/the-world-we-want-for-girls.html

We'd love to invite our Guiding and Scouting sisters to join us to shout out for gender equality. If you or your Guides/Scouts are empowered by our message please send us your own thoughts, photos, pictures or videos on the importance of gender equality! You can reach us at ewicking@guidesvic.org.au or through our blog at http://girlguidesclickforchange.tumblr.com/

This guest post was written by Erin Wicking.