Lisa Ling: 'Who Cares About Girls?'

March 25, 2007 — -- "Oprah" and National Geographic correspondent Lisa Ling digs into some of the toughest issues confronting young women in her new series, "Who Cares About Girls?"

Lisa Ling: Often, when there is tragedy or catastrophe, little girls are the ones who suffer the most. So this attempt is really to give a voice to people who often go unheard. … In our first documentary, "Daughters Left Behind," we examine the impact that a mother's incarceration has on her daughters. And if you think about growing up in America for little girls, it's hard enough.

You have body-image pressures, you have pressures with school, you have boy pressure. Think about if you don't have your mom around, and then think about the thousands of little girls who go to school kind of carrying a lie with them, because they don't want to tell their friends about where their mothers are.

Often, as journalists, when you do stories, they air and then you move on to the next. … One of the things that I'm so excited about with this series is the advocacy component and the Internet component. … There are resources. There are ways that you can donate money. … You can volunteer, and you can know about ways that you can help these little girls.