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Women and Girls > BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls (#2095)
Summary
BRAC's ELA project will provide 500 teenage girls in Uganda with 20 safe spaces, informal education and micro loans. This will help them lead confident, self-reliant and dignified lives
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $18,151 was raised for this project. |
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There are 600 million teenage girls living in poverty in the developing world. This project benefits girls in one of the world’s poorest countries: Uganda. The project addresses the prevalent inequalities created by subordination, early marriage, frequent pregnancy, abandonment, divorce, domestic violence, marginalization and exclusion through financial and social interventions. The effect is a higher standard of living for families, villages, and the entire country.
Life skill training, reading, socializing at the center, playing indoor games, income generation training courses, extra-curricular activities, livelihood training, micro finance group formation, micro lending, impact research.
Total Funding Received to Date: $18,151
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $18,151 . The original project funding goal was $90,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
An educated girl marries 4 years later, has 2.2 fewer children and reinvests 90% of her income in her family as opposed to a man’s 35%. Educating girls reduces overall HIV and malnutrition and also leads to higher high school attendance.
“We can dramatically improve the lives of adolescent girls and the communities they live in by giving the girls a basic education and a means to earn a livelihood.”
- Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA
Michelle Chaplin
11 East 44th St.
Suite 1600
New York, NY 10017
United States
(212) 808-5615
Email:
BRAC USA
11 East 44th St. Suite 1600
New York,
NY
10017
United States
(212) 808-5615
http://www.brac.net/usa
This project is located in Uganda
and can also be found under Women and Girls.
For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 20, 2008
By Michelle Chaplin - Program Manager, BRAC USA, October 16, 2008 01:21 PM
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