Empowering Girls in School

hello wonderful donors!

It is yet another exciting moment for Songtaba to update you on what has been happening in the project communities with the support of your donations. The activities of the girls clubs for the term came to an end during the end of the academic term. But the good news is that they were able to achieve a lot before breaking for the holidays. key among their achievement was the successfull launch of a campaign against child/force marriage. The campaign against child marriage was successfully planned and executed. The girls organised community outreach programmes where they visited market places and homes to educate parents on the dangers of marrying off their girl children at early ages. They also took turns to educate parents on the benfits of allowing their girl children to access formal education.

After a long vacation, schools are back to session and the girls are very excited to see each other again and also to continue their activities. They have started this term titling it as 'PLANNING FOR ACTION'. Rabiatu Alhassan, one of the girls clubs member in an interview on how she feel being part of the girls clubs had this to say, ' I fell very excited for being a member of the girls clubs, it is very educative and informative and i shall put all efforts in getting our action plans implemented for this academic term'.

As part of the action plans for this period, most of the clubs are doing restructuring and electing new leaders because some of their members who were leaders have graduated to junior high school.

Thank you for making time to read our update on Empowering Girls in School project.