Gender Equality Nigeria Project #30394

Support Girls Education Now or Never

by Girls Education Mission International

Project Report | Dec 21, 2022
AS WE WRAP UP FOR THE YEAR 2022

By Keturah Shammah | Project Leader

Dear Partners,

The year is quickly ending, and in the next couple of days, we will be ushering in the New Year, 2023. Before we wrap up the year, allow us to share with you some of our key highlights. Your support and contribution has been instrumental in bringing all these, and other initiatives, programs, and projects into fruition. We remain indebted to you and look forward to working together in the New Year.

2022 was a historic year for us at Girls Education Mission International, and it’s all thanks to you!

You believed in our mission from the get-go and trusted us with your resources. We hope you know that your support moved us steps closer to reaching our goal. Thank you for choosing to invest in our work.

Here’s a quick rundown of our 2022:

We have paid fees ranging from Junior Secondary exam, Joint Admission Matriculation and termly fees for 10 girls.

With support from TY Danjuma Foundation, we partnered with Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and had some of their University Lecturers who are experts in teaching profession trained 62 teachers and 6 supervisors of education from 60 primary and junior secondary schools across 5 Local Governments of Plateau State. The teachers were taught how to deliver effective curriculum and relevant content in the classroom towards ensuring quality education and better learning outcomes.

We have donated 2000 text and workbooks on English, Maths and Basic science to 60 schools.

We have distributed over 200 sanitary pads to schoolgirls in Plateau State.

Over 350 schoolgirls with few of their boys’ counterparts received mentorship on how to succeed in-and-out of school, sexual and reproductive health and menstrual hygiene and digital awareness.

At the Course of the year, 3 of our girls got admitted into higher school of learning. For example, Lois got admitted into the Kaduna State College of Health Makarfi to study Pharmacy. Sarah was admitted to study Laboratory science at Institute of Human health Vom Vet, while Deborah admitted for a National Certificate in Education (NCE) at Federal College of Education Pankshin. The 3 have Since resumed school and are adopting. Meanwhile we have 6 more of our girls already studying in various universities and institutions.

Girls Education Mission International have been Top ranked by GlobalGiving for 5 consecutive years and became Top-rated by Greatnonprofit for 8 consecutive years.

Perhaps our biggest win this year was having had to win 5 years grant up to #500000 ($) to be disburse annually to our organization for the 5-years period by TY Danjuma Foundation. We have also secured 5 yeas partnerships with TY Danjuma Foundation. Within these period (2023-2027), TY Danjuma Foundation funding will support will enable us train 300,000 teachers from 1,500 schools with expectation to reach out to 1,500,00 children in the Northeastern Nigerian where Education for girls is limited. Other support including girl’s mentorship and Learning materials will be donated respectively.

We have moved to a new facility to enable us meet up with the criteria of securing a long-term grant. We are able to secure a facility at a very cheaper rate, even though the facility required us to refurbish after which we could use it for a long term. The facility if refurbished, will give us an event hall that can sit up 150 persons, 3 offices and a reception, a security post, and a good parking space.

What to expect in 2023:

An organization, we remain upbeat and optimistic about the New Year, as we believe we will be able to achieve much more together.

At GEM we’re always working tirelessly to ensure that we deliver resilient, highly efficient, and ultimate sustainable programs that truly serves the needs of girls and multiplies the impact of your investment. We focus on the disadvantagedwhom our programs will have a transformative impact. We’re doubling down on those efforts in 2023.We’re hoping for more funding partners and hope to come up with new programs and initiatives that will ensure sustainability of our work and impact. More details on these programs and initiatives will come next year.

Until then we take this opportunity to wish you, and your loved ones HAPPY HOLIDAYS and prosperous NEW YEAR 2023!

Again, THANK YOU for believing in us! We’re just getting started!

Compliments of the season and see you in 2023!

From all of us at Girls Education Mission International

Donation of Books to Plateau State for schools

Teachers during the training opening ceremony

FREE Sanitary Pad for school girls

Mentorship session with school girls

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Nov 11, 2022
GEM IS GREATNONPROFIT "2022 TOP-RATED NONPROFIT"

By Keturah Shammah | Project Director

Dear Partner,

As you are aware, with your support, at Girls Education Mission International, we provide girls with resources, tools, and experiences they need to access quality education which enables them reach full human potentials.

“We are honored to be named a 2022 Top-Rated Nonprofit,” says Keturah Shammah, Executive Director, GEM. We are proud of our accomplishments this year, including been top rated for the 8th time in row this year.

The Top-Rated Nonprofit Award is based on the rating and number of reviews that Girls Education Mission International received from volunteers, donors, and aid recipients. From one of the reviews; “I am Lydia Ngu. Girls Education Mission International has helped me personally and professionally through life skills, training which have helped me improve my learning”.

This Award as stated by Greatnonprofit CEO, is also as result of the tremedous support we recieve from YOU our community.

GEM is a great example of a nonprofit making a real difference in their community,” said Perla Ni, CEO of GreatNonprofits, “Their award is well-deserved recognition not only of their work, but the tremendous support they receive, as shown by the many outstanding reviews they have received from people who have direct experience working with GEM.”

We hope you are glad as we are that your support and the impact it makes is being recognised by the global community.

Even thou, the high inflation of currency in Nigeria, coupled with daily raising of insecurity and limited funding pause a great challenge to our work, our trust is that, YOU will never leave us alone nor allow our effort go in vain.

As the year comes to an end, with the GivingTuesday fast approaching, we hope that Together, we can do more for the coming year ahead 2023 as we work towards achieving our end of year fundraising campaigns with YOU.

THANK YOU for all you do for Girls in Nigeria through GEM

With Gratitude

From all of at Girls Education Mission International

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Aug 24, 2022
OUR WORK HAS BEEN VERIFIED AND RECOGNISED BY GLOBALGIVING

By Itswell Victor | Program Director

Dear Friend and Partner of Girls Education Mission International,

We trust you'll be glad to know that after successful completion of the GlobalGiving virtual site visit, the work you support at Girls Education Mission International (GEM) has been verified by a member of GlobalGiving (GG) community.

The recognition was after a successful completion of 5 days long virtual site visit where GlobalGiving (GG) confirmed that GEM performs charitable work in a transparent and accountable manner, and the organization is able to meet local requirements for registration with the government and relevant bodies. The visit which took place between 13^th-19^th May 2022 had a GG Field program senior associate and site visit contractor who engaged with staff and beneficiaries for the purpose to learn better about GEM work and strengthen the relationship between the two organizations, provide support and resources on fundraising through GG.

For the past 5 years, GEM has been a partner of GlobalGiving after a due diligence was carried out where the organization’s financial records, program materials, and lists of senior staff and board members were collected and reviewed by the GlobalGiving community in order to validate that GEM is running its projects as described. GEM’s capacity to implement activities and communicate about its work has also been evaluated and research on the organization’s relationship with previous funders including the organization’s compliant with anti-terror guidelines and international guidelines for philanthropy was also carried out by the Globagiving.

You may already be aware that as a nonproft organisation with best practice in education and empowerment of girls, Girls Education Mission I nternational work has been vetted, top rated, top-ranked and named effective both locally and internationally. We thank you for being part of our success story of which without your support, we wouldn't have been able to do much as this. For this, we say THANK YOU for tusting us with your resources.

A s usual, we remain commiteed sending you regularly our project reports, including activities, accomplishments, and results of our projects to-date so you can see how your donation is being used and what progress has been made.

NOTE: GlobalGiving's crowd favorite campaign, Little by Little, takes place Sept. 12-16! This campaign is designed to showcase the power of our community. Eligible donations up to $50 will be matched at 50% all 5 days long of the Campaing! This is a great opportunity for you to douple the impact of your donation by making a safe and secure donation using this link from any part of the world using Credit card, Debit card or PayPal. “At GEM, we deliver resilient, highly efficient and ultimately sustainable programs that truly serve the need of our community and multiply the impact of donor investment.,” said Founder and Executive Director of GEM – Ms. Keturah Shammah.

Thank you for being of our Community.

With gratitude

From all of us at

Girls Education Mission International

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