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GET UP. SPEAK UP. DON'T GIVE UP.
In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every schoolgirl who couldn't afford tampons or sanitary towels.
Three years later, in January 2020, these products became freely available to every schoolgirl in England for the first time, funded by the government.
Anyone can make history, including a teenager launching a global petition from their bedroom. And Amika will show you how, in this essential guide to being an activist.
With chapters on finding your crowd and creating allies, going public with your campaign, how to use social media effectively and how to look after your mental health while protesting, Amika will show you how you can effect real and lasting change in your community, on the streets of your city, on your social media feed, in your country and in YOUR world.
• Is the environment being overlooked in favour of driving profits? • Do you see injustice and suffering all around you? • Have you hit upon a way to make the world a better place?
This - rallying cry, stories and lessons, and interviews from Amika's fellow protestors and other changemakers - is your book.
It's not too late. You're not too young. You are important. Rise up and be the change you want to see.
• Make It Happen is an inspirational, motivational step-by-step guide on how to become an activist from Amika George, founder of the Free Periods movement.
• Using her platform Amika garnered over 270,000 signatures on her petition to end period poverty, raised over £25,000 for legal costs associated to ending period poverty and rallied over 2000 people to attend The Pink Protest in December 2017, all while she was still in school.
• In response to her activism, Amika has been honoured as the Stylist's Woman of the Year 2017, featured on TIME Most Influential Teens of 2018 list, The Big Issue Top 100 Changemakers, and Teen Vogue 21 under 21 (after being nominated by Emma Watson). She also won a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Campaign Award in 2018.
• Amika is very well connected with inspirational friends from MPs Jess Philips and MP Paula Sherrif, to comedian and founder of the Guilty Feminist Podcast Deborah Frances White and Vogue contributing editor Adwoa Aboah, as well as Suki Waterhouse, Daisy Lowe and Tanya Burr, all of whom attended The Pink Protest.
• Amika has been interviewed, published and her campaign has received coverage in many influential magazines and newspapers, as well as on featuring on TV, podcasts and broadcast e.g. TED X, Vogue, Elle, The Guilty Feminist, Ctrl Alt Delete, This Morning, BBC Radio London, Women's Hour, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Sky News and many others.
• In the last few years, there has been a huge rise in activism. This book will be a guide to those already involved, those who want to be, and those who don't yet know they can be. Perfect for fans of We Should All Be Feminists, Feminists Don't Wear Pink, No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference and Be The Change.
In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every schoolgirl who couldn't afford tampons or sanitary towels.
Three years later, in January 2020, these products became freely available to every schoolgirl in England for the first time, funded by the government.
Anyone can make history, including a teenager launching a global petition from their bedroom. And Amika will show you how, in this essential guide to being an activist.
With chapters on finding your crowd and creating allies, going public with your campaign, how to use social media effectively and how to look after your mental health while protesting, Amika will show you how you can effect real and lasting change in your community, on the streets of your city, on your social media feed, in your country and in YOUR world.
• Is the environment being overlooked in favour of driving profits? • Do you see injustice and suffering all around you? • Have you hit upon a way to make the world a better place?
This - rallying cry, stories and lessons, and interviews from Amika's fellow protestors and other changemakers - is your book.
It's not too late. You're not too young. You are important. Rise up and be the change you want to see.
• Make It Happen is an inspirational, motivational step-by-step guide on how to become an activist from Amika George, founder of the Free Periods movement.
• Using her platform Amika garnered over 270,000 signatures on her petition to end period poverty, raised over £25,000 for legal costs associated to ending period poverty and rallied over 2000 people to attend The Pink Protest in December 2017, all while she was still in school.
• In response to her activism, Amika has been honoured as the Stylist's Woman of the Year 2017, featured on TIME Most Influential Teens of 2018 list, The Big Issue Top 100 Changemakers, and Teen Vogue 21 under 21 (after being nominated by Emma Watson). She also won a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Campaign Award in 2018.
• Amika is very well connected with inspirational friends from MPs Jess Philips and MP Paula Sherrif, to comedian and founder of the Guilty Feminist Podcast Deborah Frances White and Vogue contributing editor Adwoa Aboah, as well as Suki Waterhouse, Daisy Lowe and Tanya Burr, all of whom attended The Pink Protest.
• Amika has been interviewed, published and her campaign has received coverage in many influential magazines and newspapers, as well as on featuring on TV, podcasts and broadcast e.g. TED X, Vogue, Elle, The Guilty Feminist, Ctrl Alt Delete, This Morning, BBC Radio London, Women's Hour, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Sky News and many others.
• In the last few years, there has been a huge rise in activism. This book will be a guide to those already involved, those who want to be, and those who don't yet know they can be. Perfect for fans of We Should All Be Feminists, Feminists Don't Wear Pink, No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference and Be The Change.