4.25.2008 - Rising Up: Empowered Girls Make the Move from Middle to High School

Daily Camera - Fifteen-year-old Miah Yager is getting ready to leave the people she calls her second family. As it does every year, Manhattan Middle School will soon say goodbye to the eighth-graders moving on to high school. But during the last two months Yager has had help in preparing for her departure from the school she calls home. Yager is one of five eight-grade girls participating in Girls on the Rise, a program the Women's Wilderness Institute started in February.
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