VJs with a cause

The hosts of MTV are usually seen chilling on a couch and chatting with the “who’s who” of music, but a new documentary will show three popular VJs in very different surroundings.

Girls of Latitude, a documentary created in partnership with Plan Canada and MTV Canada, profiles three young women from different parts of the world and the harsh realities they’re facing. VJs with a cause

MTV hosts Nicole Holness, Aliya-Jasmine Sovani and Diane Salema traveled to Plan projects in Haiti, Sudan and Colombia to meet girls struggling to survive in the midst of violence and instability.

Fourteen-year-old Patricia lives in Haiti’s most dangerous slum. She carries a reminder of her violent community in the police officer’s bullet lodged in her body. It is one of four gunshot wounds she’s endured.

We also meet Suku, a 16-year-old girl from Sudan who is fighting for girls’ access to education, which is too often denied in favour of an early marriage and the large dowry it brings to the girl’s family.

Liseth, 17, tells of the violence she witnesses almost daily in the Colombian fishing town where she lives.

The documentary highlights issues relating to youth justice, early marriage and violence, and showcases exceptional young people working to change their world. The girls’ ability to promote human rights is a potent example of the power youth have when they work together for positive change.

Watch these inspiring stories with your sons and daughters when the documentary airs on November 13th at 9:30pm, and on CTV on November 14th at 1:00pm EST.

Girls of Latitude is part of Plan Canada’s Because I am a Girl campaign, a nine-year project that advocates for girls in developing countries.

You can show your support by signing our online petition calling on the Canadian government to live up to its international reputation as a global leader on gender equality by supporting the world’s girls.

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