The project plans to build a home for 30 vulnerable children that will also serve as a learning centre for life skills development.
Illiteracy among the Maasai population and the high level of girls dropping out of school due to teenage pregnancies is a major problem affecting school age girls. Between 1984 and 1990, for example, the dropout rate for girls is an astonishing 48.3%. We must stop harmful traditional practices like female genital mutilation and early girl child marriages which greatly diminish the opportunity for young Maasai girls to pursue personal advancement and empowerment through education.
Girls who drop-out of school require alternative means of education to acquire livelihood skills that will enable them to live decent lives. Give Life Skills Project will offer studies in tailoring, handcrafts and information and communication technology (ICT). It will furthermore offer services to the girls through counselling & mentorship, teach personal hygiene and reproductive health, and offer legal assistance to girls that require legal protection.
Girls will be better prepared to make their own decisions and take responsibility over their lives; have better understanding of their sexual and reproductive health and their role as women in the society. Community leaders take greater action to end child marriage and enforce child rights; girls are better protected from violence, exploitation or abuse; communities increasingly accept alternative roles of girls beyond marriage and accept them as potential future leaders and breadwinners.
