500 Girls off the Street & Into School in Liberia.

 
$36,576
$18,423
Raised
Remaining

Summary

We help get girls off the street and into school in one of the world's most notorious slums in Liberia, West Africa.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

73% of Liberian children are denied an education - over 80% of them are girls (UNESCO). A girl denied an education, is a girl on the street. It's a girl who's exploited and condemned to underemployment. The ripple of effect of this denial of her basic right is seen in the stagnation of her wages, her susceptibility to exploitation and disease, and even her children's future education.

How will this project solve this problem?

Educating a girl changes, well, everything. We get Abigail and other girls off the street and into school in one of the world's most dangerous slums in the world in Liberia. We work with community leaders to identify the girls who are at the highest risk of being sexually exploited to ensure that education and opportunity, not exploitation and poverty, shape their lives. We pay tuition and provide them school lunch. We work with the school and community to make it impossible for them to fail.

Potential Long Term Impact

Educating one girl changes, well, everything. Here's why: When a girl in the developing world receives seven or more years of education, she marries 4 years later and has 2.2 fewer children. An extra year of primary school boosts girls' eventual wages by 10 to 20%. An extra year of secondary school: 15 to 25%. When women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90% of it into their families. When we invest in girls we all win.

Project Message

"Tell the people who are helping me, I have nothing to repay but I am too happy that people who don't even know me would want to help. To live in Liberia is to struggle hard. May God bless them!"
- Esther, Mother of Elizabeth our 1st student

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $36,576
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $18,423
Total Funding Goal: $55,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Organization

More than Me Foundation
More than Me Foundation

Washington, DC, United States
http://www.morethanme.org

Project Leader

Katie Meyler

Bernardsville, NJ United States

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