This project provides literacy and leadership workshops for girls in countries including Iraq, Kenya & Liberia. We provide mentorship, health & safety information and a safe space for self-expression.
Staggering statistics show that millions of girls in developing countries drop out before reaching secondary school, greatly diminishing their economic self-sufficiency and putting their health and their families’ health at risk. Statistics show that girls’ literacy levels impact their own health as well as the health of their future children. This project will affect hundreds of girls in developing countries worldwide, including, but not limited to: Iraq, Kenya, Ghana, Sudan, and Liberia.
LitWorld provides mentoring, literacy & leadership workshops, health & safety information, and lessons on female empowerment & the importance of education to girls in vulnerable communities. We equip these young women to become literacy leaders.
LitWorld Girls Clubs for literacy create a network of girls worldwide using literacy for power and social action. Girls use their newfound skills to convey issues of health, information, safety and inspiration to other young women in their community.
Girls Club has become an important and vital meeting place for young girls in the slums. Girls Club is about bringing women together to find strength and courage amongst each other to become leaders.
- Joscelyn Truitt, Girls Club Facilitator
Total Funding Received to Date: $12,210
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $2,790
Total Funding Goal: $15,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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