Educate girls and fight poverty in Senegal

Summary

By providing access to education, our project empowers girls to fight the causes and effects of poverty in their lives and build a brighter future for themselves, their families and their communities.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

UNICEF estimates that almost two-thirds of women age 15 and up in Senegal are illiterate, and that only 16 percent of Senegalese girls finish elementary school and go on to secondary school. Our project enables 100 rural girls in Senegal to have access to education; helps families and communities provide support to their daughters in school; and works to break down the economic, cultural, health-related, and social barriers that keep girls from attending and succeeding in school.

How will this project solve this problem?

We provide scholarships, tutoring and mentoring support, health education and supplies to help prevent illness and school absences, educator training, and community outreach to help increase community investment in girls’ education.

Potential Long Term Impact

Girls who receive education can get better-paying jobs, have better access to nutrition and sanitation, are better able to prevent illness and fight abuse, and are more likely to educate their own children. This ripples to her family and community.

Project Message

Enabling girls to attend school is literally a matter of life and death. Education, especially for girls and women, is the best way to break the cycle of ill health, hunger and poverty.
- Global Campaign for Education, GCE promotes education as a basic human right

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).

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