Promoting Girls' Education & Equality in Guatemala

Since the first session of the pilot project ended this summer, Girl Rising Guatemala has been busy reviewing and incorporating evaluation results and planning for the second cohort of participants. 

To help with the creation of new content and expand the work with girls, in mid-September, we invited alumnae—girls who took part in Year 1—to participate in a workshop that guided the girls through the process of capturing their own compelling personal narratives on camera, told in their local languages with the goal of also developing their storytelling skills. Select content will be integrated into the curricula to give voice to local girls facing local challenges, with the aim to provide inspiration and encouragement to other girls in their communities. We look forward to seeing and sharing the girls' reactions and the impact of this localized content for the program. 

In 2020, GR will continue to work with our current partners and also start working with two others in different regions of the country: COINCIDIR in Jalapa, working with adolescent girls at the community level and EPRODEP, an organization that works with girls and boys in their schools in the outskirts of Guatemala City. With the second cohort, we intend to extend the project to new and greater numbers of girls as well as include boys, parents and community leaders to begin to shift gender attitudes and create awareness about how educating girls is proven to benefit and improve the stability and health of communities. We look forward to sharing the details in the new year!