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Share Your Father/Daughter Stories for an Important Cause

October 14, 2016 AYA Leave a Comment

Share Your Father/Daughter Stories for an Important Cause | Academic Year in America (AYA)

The State Department wants you to help improve the global conversation about dads, daughters, and gender equality! If you have a great father-daughter or host father-host daughter relationship, here’s how you can get involved:

Submit a story (250-500 words) or photos paired with a quote about how your own daughter or father–or a daughter and father relationship–has helped you to think differently about the strength of girls and women, and the caring potential of fatherhood to ayablog@aifs.org by Wednesday, October 19, 2016. Look for these stories to be published on the AYA blog and the Department of State’s blog, RouteJ1, during the last week of the month.

Questions to Consider

Here are some prompts that can help you share your story:

  • Was there ever a time your views on gender equality changed because of something your dad/daughter said or did?
  • What kind of influence has your dad/daughter had on your life?
  • What’s the most important lesson you learned from your dad/daughter?
  • What moment in your life were you most proud of your dad/daughter?
  • What advice would you give for fathers raising their own daughters?

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