Some people are just remarkable, depite of their age and 11-year-old Philadelphia native Marley Dias is one of those people! At just 11 she has already acheived so much (such as gaining a grant to feed orphans in Ghana) and her latest project is something we should all get behind.

Marley has created the #1000BlackGirlBooks book drive after being disheartened by the lack of black girl lead characters in the books she was being given at school. The drive aims to collect 1000 books of this nature before Feb 1st, after their last even they are around half way through.

So how did this all start?

The Philly Voice reported

Dias’ latest social action project is the “#1000BlackGirlBooks” book drive. Frustrated with many of the books she’s assigned in school, she confessed to her mother during dinner one night that she was unhappy with how monochromatic so many stories felt.

“I told her I was sick of reading about white boys and dogs,” Dias said, pointing specifically to “Where the Red Fern Grows” and the “Shiloh” series. “‘What are you going to do about it?’ [my mom] asked. And I told her I was going to start a book drive, and a specific book drive, where black girls are the main characters in the book and not background characters or minor characters.”

What an amazing young girl!

Really we should all help this push. More details can be found here: http://www.phillyvoice.com/11-year-old-jersey-girl-launches-1000blackgirlbooks-book-drive/