Saving India's Disappearing Daughters

"Every girl deserves a chance at life," Sekhon said. "Cultural values need to change. We all come from someone's daughter." 

One woman, Deesh Sekhon, from British Columbia has taken on the challenge to help save the females of India.

"It's been called gendercide: the elimination of girls through sex-selective abortion, neglect or murder to avoid a deep-set custom in Indian culture -- paying dowry to future husbands' families. According to the United Nations, as many as 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India, and untold numbers of baby girls are abandoned or killed." - ABC 20/20

It seems like most of us, Sekhon didn't realize the degree to which females are abandoned in India. She created a social media campaign called "Save a Girl" which ran from December 2011 to January 2012. This campaign requested for people to donate clothes and other goods to these females. The goal of this was to make these girls feel that someone out in the world cared for them, how inspiring :)