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Empower African Girls with Hygiene and Education
Empower African Girls with Hygiene and Education
Uganda  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
The poverty cycle can be broken when girls stay in school. An innovative solution has proven to be key - sustainable feminine hygiene she can count on. With it, she can avoid infection, shame, exploitation, early marriage, and even trafficking.Your support of this project provides girls quality washable sanitary pads and important reproductive health, hygiene, self-defense and sewing training. Girls, families and communities are empowered as leaders and sewing cooperatives gain income and skills project reportread updates from the field
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Help put girls at the forefront of change in Burma
Help put girls at the forefront of change in Burma
Myanmar  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
Girl Determined is a leadership project for girls aged 12-17. By facilitating girls' recognition of their personal and group potential they learn to avoid the pitfalls of trafficking, dangerous labor and other forms of violence. project reportread updates from the field
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Equip rural Kenyan girls to GET UP out of poverty
Equip rural Kenyan girls to GET UP out of poverty
Kenya  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
Impoverished adolescent girls in rural Kenya face enormous obstacles to completing education needed for self-supporting work. GET UP (Girl Empowerment Team of the Umoja Project) paves a path to success through a comprehensive program focusing on health education, positive relationships, life skills and girls' rights. Community women are trained to serve as mentors, and professional women provide vocational guidance. With effective support, girls learn to GET UP instead of giving up. project reportread updates from the field
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Empower Teen Mothers Through Education in Cameroon
Empower Teen Mothers Through Education in Cameroon
Cameroon  Education   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
SDI empowers teenage mothers and their families to become leaders and promoters of reproductive health, family planning and sustainable livelihood in their communities. Consequently, they will become agents for change in adolescent pregnancy, child bearing, teenage abortion, education, development, growth and contribute in making a positive change in the society. Women are agents of change. Invest in teen mothers, improve their communities and the world at large. project reportread updates from the field
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Education and Empowerment for Refugee Girls
Education and Empowerment for Refugee Girls
Kenya  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
The Girls' Empowerment Project is an oasis of peace and hope where adolescent refugee girls regain their health, join a community of support, and gain life-long tools leading them to self-sufficiency project reportread updates from the field
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Empower Girls Rescued from Sex Slavery in Cambodia
Empower Girls Rescued from Sex Slavery in Cambodia
Cambodia  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
Senhoa supports 40 girls rescued from sex slavery through employment, education, and programs for self-empowerment. This project equips girls with the income and skills needed for sustainable freedom. project reportread updates from the field
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Mariposa Center For Girls
Mariposa Center For Girls
Dominican Republic  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
A 5000 sq. meter complex where poor girls can engage in sports, academic tutoring, job training, crafts, computer and library access, health resources and much more. The Mariposa Center for Girls will attract volunteers, educators and humanitarians from across the world to share knowledge on educating and empowering girls as a means to end generational poverty on a global scale. Our vision is to create a model for the world and raise awareness that girls are the most powerful force for change. project reportread updates from the field
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Empower Marginalized Young Women in Ghana
Empower Marginalized Young Women in Ghana
Ghana  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
The products we make are an act of transformation. Plastic turned fabric, glass turned beads, white cloth turned colorful batik. It's poverty turned dignity, abandonment turned hope, neglect turned empowerment. That's why we call it the fabric of change. We invite you to be a part of it. project reportread updates from the field
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BUILDING THE FUTURES OF 100 ZIMBABWEAN GIRLS
BUILDING THE FUTURES OF 100 ZIMBABWEAN GIRLS
Zimbabwe  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
Zimbabwe is a dangerous place to grow up female. ZimKids is training 100 orphan girls to surmount the economic and social chaos and lead their community to a more vibrant and just future. project reportread updates from the field
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Unleash the leaders: 400 girls in South Sudan
Unleash the leaders: 400 girls in South Sudan
Sudan  Education   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
Ayak Anguei Girl's Primary School has 400 girls enrolled where 17 out of 23 P8 recently graduated onto secondary school in a country where 0.8% attends primary school and less than that continue due to early forced marriage Help unleash the leaders in 400 South Sudanese girls by supporting a Student Government for Girls by Girls program so they can develop confidence, leadership skills, advocate for girls education, take civic action, and participate in their school and community decisions project reportread updates from the field
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Teen Girls Health & Empowerment in Uganda
Teen Girls Health & Empowerment in Uganda
Uganda  Women and Girls   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
Uganda has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa. 50% of girls are married before they reach 18. Shanti Uganda's Teen Girls Program uses education, prevention & empowerment and has reached over 600 girls since 2010. With your help, we can reduce teen pregnancy, improve maternal health and keep girls in school. Each girl makes her own reusable menstrual pad and learns about nutrition, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, STIs, female role models and healthy relationships. project reportread updates from the field
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The Freedom Project: Prevention Through Education
The Freedom Project: Prevention Through Education
Thailand  Education   Girl Effect ProjectGirl Effect Project
In Thailand, The Freedom Project works with children at risk to prevent human trafficking & child sexual exploitation through education & community development. Through educational scholarships, tutoring, mentors, workshops & additional programs at our community Resource Center, we're helping more than 130 children reach their potential & become the leaders of tomorrow. project reportread updates from the field
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