Our Mission
Our Mission is to provide mentoring for girls between the ages of 10 and 18 in the Mississippi Delta, a severely underserved region of the United States. We provide resources so that our girls can overcome obstacles heaped on them by society merely due to their zip code. Challenges related to poverty, education, training and health care just to name a few.
Core Values
The success of Atlanta GLOW is derived from an engaged and dedicated board of directors, leadership and staff whose collaborative process and work environment are guided by the following core values:
Purity. Purity promotes worth. Don’t let anyone tell you who you are. You get to determine that, no one else and it is up to you to determine who you are and what your place is in the world.
Empathy. Empathy promotes compassion to others. This value is important because it is how we as individuals
understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves.
Awareness. Awareness promotes shedding light on problems that affect our community. There are people who are struggling, but do not know that their struggle is important or that what they are facing is a battle that is worth
fighting. Awareness offers hope.
Respect. Respect promotes morals. When a person shows respect for someone, then it means that the person has some value for them. So respect others and make them respect you through your respected and polished manners.
Leadership. Leadership promotes being an ideal teenage girl. An ambassador for not only our organization, but for our family, our school, and our communities. Each one of us can make a difference. We are all born to be leaders.
Scholarship. Scholarship promotes knowledge. Being a PEARL is important but a commitment to learning is what’s most important. Spending the necessary time to cultivate our mind in the quest of knowledge. This value can only be achieved through diligence and effort. Scholarship means to always do the best work possible, regardless of impending reward.
Empathy. Empathy promotes compassion to others. This value is important because it is how we as individuals
understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves.
Awareness. Awareness promotes shedding light on problems that affect our community. There are people who are struggling, but do not know that their struggle is important or that what they are facing is a battle that is worth
fighting. Awareness offers hope.
Respect. Respect promotes morals. When a person shows respect for someone, then it means that the person has some value for them. So respect others and make them respect you through your respected and polished manners.
Leadership. Leadership promotes being an ideal teenage girl. An ambassador for not only our organization, but for our family, our school, and our communities. Each one of us can make a difference. We are all born to be leaders.
Scholarship. Scholarship promotes knowledge. Being a PEARL is important but a commitment to learning is what’s most important. Spending the necessary time to cultivate our mind in the quest of knowledge. This value can only be achieved through diligence and effort. Scholarship means to always do the best work possible, regardless of impending reward.
Our Strategy
As a group, women and girls from the Mississippi Delta live at the intersection of multiple systems of oppression and lack of opportunities, yet few programs and organizations focus on their unique experiences, challenges and needs. P.E.A.R.L.S. Mentoring for Girls, Inc. programs seek to fill this gap by examining the intersectional factors that both drive and deny their leadership cultivation and opportunities. Our programs then prioritize a multi-pronged approach to help lead and launch traditionally marginalized young girls towards lives filled with opportunities for personal fulfillment, upward mobility, civic engagement and career advancement.