Glamour Magazine has begun an initiative called The Girl Project to highlight obstacles facing the 50 million girls worldwide who are fighting for an education.

As part of the project, Glamour sent five young female directors around the world to tell the stories of five girls for the new docu-series “Get Schooled,” which is now playing on Glamour.com. “Get Schooled” gives a real-life look at “the complex environmental and social issues that keep girls from succeeding in school and highlights the triumphs of five brave girls who are determined to overcome them.”

The series features girls from Kansas, Malawi, New York City, India, and Brazil who are supported by The Girl Project’s partner organizations, Communities in Schools, CARE, Lower Eastside Girls Club, She’s the First, and Plan International USA.

“Glamour is proud of ‘Get Schooled’ on two levels,” said Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief of Glamour. “This beautiful series tells the real stories of girls around the world struggling to get an education; that it does so through the work of five female directors only makes the storytelling more powerful.”

New episodes of “Get Schooled” will premiere each Monday. The first is the story of Kylee, an 18-year-old from Ottawa, Kansas. As Glamour explains, “As she details her family’s difficulties paying for books, lunch, computer use, and school fees, director Sabaah Jordan artfully conveys the role poverty can play in education. Like Kylee, Jordan was raised by a single mother and finds herself inspired by Kylee’s determination to stay in school so that she can one day provide for her own children.”

Other directors in the series include Elizabeth Lo, Idil Ibrahim, Alexandra Roxo, and Lina Plioplyte.