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Project Report | Nov 12, 2024
GGG Creative Minds Challenge

By Leonie Heppener | Founder and CEO

Dear friend of GGG,

never a dull moment in our organization! We are always busy with our weekly Go Girl meetings, mother club meetings, home visitations, IT classes and sewing classes. And the last couple of months are no exception. We like sharing some visuals though so you see what we do.

But for today, we would like to highlight 2 special projects we have been working on. First of all, our first annual Creative Minds Challenge! Meant to inspire girls to read more, get better at writing and creative thinking. 3 girls from Buduburam and 3 girls from Nyanyano competed against eachother and they both gave it their all. A lot of preperations were done before the event from both the girls as our team and the event was a huge success! The girls now want to do it every month. The winners of this challenge was team Nyanyano and we give them a big congrats on their win!

Our other project has everything to do with pads. Pads are expensive in Ghana and girls do not go to school whilst menstruating because they can't afford them. With the help of one of our generous donors, we have started a pad making project for reusable pads. After months of testing different materials, fabrics and designs, we have come to a pad which is comfortable and lasts. We are about half way in making 600 pads which will be donated to our 200 girls. Super proud of the teams hard work! Will of course share pictures once the girls have received them.

Next time we will inform you about our back to school program and our yearly JHS 3 outing, celebrating the girls who will transition from JHS (junior highschool) to SHS (senior highschool).

We want to thank you for your continued support and don't forget to follow our stories on Facebook!

Best wishes,

team GGG

IT class

Creative minds teams

Creative Minds Event

Creative minds winners

GGG pads

GGG Pads making

Links:

Creative minds video

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Jun 10, 2024
2024 Kicks off with a new GGG office

By Leonie Heppener | Executive Director

GGG new office

Dear Go Girl Ghana supporter,

2024 has kicked off with a new office. We are so happy! It is enclosed so even safer for our girls to be in. More space so that we can do more activities at the same time and als hold more events on our own grounds. We've already held quite a few activities and the reviews are all positive.

What else have we done? Despite the roaring recession, we have supported to keep 6 of our girls in Senior Highschool. Half of them are in their last year now and so will be graduating this year. We are so proud to be part of their journeys.

In February, we took our Junior Highschool form 3 girls on an outing in Accra. Most of them had never been there before. We took them to the Kwame Nkrumah memorial park where they learnt about how and when Ghana gained it's independance.

Additionally, we also held our second graduation of our IT classes. This year 18 girls received their certificate in computer basics. Learning about IT means a lot in a country that is digitalizing but where most girls to not have access to a computer. We are very proud of them and so were the parents that joined the festivities too.

We can't report anot not tell you about our volunteers. Till date have had the support of 2 international volunteers. Seb is helping with giving our girls typing class, he will be with us for the better pat of 2024. We have also had Una, our 16 year old who did a 2 week internship in our office and did various cultural exchange programs with oour girls. They clearly all had a lof of fun!

But out work never end there, we have our weekly Go Girl group meetings, we hold our volunteer meetings to talk about how to improve our with, we meet with the parents to talk about their girls and education and visit them at home too. This really does help show our commitment to them and in turn activates their commitment to us too.

The next part of this year looks exciting with more activities for our girls and their communties. We hope you will continue to support our efforts! Thank you again for your support up to now.

Best wishes,

Team GGG

GGG IT graduates

Typing Class with Seb

Cultural Exchange

Outing

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Jun 10, 2024
2024 Kicks off with a new GGG office

By Leonie Heppener | Executive Director

NEW GGG OFFICE!

Dear Go Girl Ghana supporter,

2024 has kicked off with a new office. We are so happy! It is enclosed so even safer for our girls to be in. More space so that we can do more activities at the same time and als hold more events on our own grounds. We've already held quite a few activities and the reviews are all positive.

What else have we done? Despite the roaring recession, we have supported to keep 6 of our girls in Senior Highschool. Half of them are in their last year now and so will be graduating this year. We are so proud to be part of their journeys.

In February, we took our Junior Highschool form 3 girls on an outing in Accra. Most of them had never been there before. We took them to the Kwame Nkrumah memorial park where they learnt about how and when Ghana gained it's independance.

Additionally, we also held our second graduation of our IT classes. This year 18 girls received their certificate in computer basics. Learning about IT means a lot in a country that is digitalizing but where most girls to not have access to a computer. We are very proud of them and so were the parents that joined the festivities too.

We can't report anot not tell you about our volunteers. Till date have had the support of 2 international volunteers. Seb is helping with giving our girls typing class, he will be with us for the better pat of 2024. We have also had Una, our 16 year old who did a 2 week internship in our office and did various cultural exchange programs with oour girls. They clearly all had a lof of fun!

But out work never end there, we have our weekly Go Girl group meetings, we hold our volunteer meetings to talk about how to improve our with, we meet with the parents to talk about their girls and education and visit them at home too. This really does help show our commitment to them and in turn activates their commitment to us too.

The next part of this year looks exciting with more activities for our girls and their communties. We hope you will continue to support our efforts! Thank you again for your support up to now.

Best wishes,

Team GGG