Dear Supporters,
The power of your donation shines in the impact we are creating together.
Last year 2019, we asked for your support, you have answered our request with your generous donations— and the results are in!
We are excited to share with you the newly released 2019 Impact Report that highlights how your donation is creating impact in our communities.
In 2019, your support and engagements grew exponentially. And as a supportive member of our community, you help make all of this —and more—possible. You can see the full impact report in the official report attached in this report.
In this crucial moment in history, our success story is stepping up in ways never imagined before and showing the world the power of supportive community like you. We are amazed and inspired by the impact you have enabled us created in our communities and for the world in the past year alone.
As a community, we are raising the volume. We are not only touching lives — we are mking a real change in the World. From all of us at Girls Education Mission International, thank you for being a part of the future that we’re creating!
With love and gratitude
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With the COVID-19 Pandemic impacting everyday life, we want to thank you for your continued support and wish you healthy and safety.
It has been a tough time for Girls Education Mission International adapting to these unprecedented circumstances. For us, the lockdown and social distance as preventive measures against the Corona Virus are one of the greatest threats posed by COVID-19 on our organization. Our capacity for us to work remotely was limited. This in number of ways limits our operations and affecting our work. All these has detrimental effects and are threats to the impact and sustainability of Girls Education Mission International.
Of more concern is that the situation will be even worse after the Corona Virus due to the unpredictable Nigerian context marked by economic instability. While there is a lot of uncertainty, we know that we need to adapt fast our changing reality. Now, more than ever, our girls need us.
Right now, we are doing everything possible to sustain our operations and provide services to our community.
The Good News!
We are glad to inform you that GlobalGiving has awarded Girls Education Mission International a COVID-19 Micro Grant of $1,000. This is a great achievement to us all. In order to ensure not to roll back the gain we’ve recorded so far, we are designing a long term sustainability plan. We plan to launch a sanitary pad production that would enable us continue to serve our community as best as we can.
The sanitary pad production when launched, we hope that it would help us:
We know that times are tough, but Girls Education Mission International has an important role to play by continuing operations to best serve our girls. We have created a COVID-19 Response Appeal fundraiser that you can Donate Right now if you are able https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/girlsemergencyfund/. Note that For five days straight (Sept. 14-18), all donations made to our project up to $50 will be matched at 50%.
If you are unable to donate at this time, there are many other ways you can support us. You can advocate for us by sharing our mission with a family member or friend, set up a fundraiser on our behalf. Even a quick mention on your social media would mean much to us.
In times like this we are reminded of how interconnected we all are. Thank you for being part of our community. Without you, none of it is possible. Stay safe and well.
Keturah Shammah
for GIRLS EDUCATION MISSION INTERNATIONAL
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Dear Supporter,
Greetings to you with hope you are keeping safe and healthy with the COVID-19 Pandemic that is impacting lives. As the novel Coronavirus spreads all over the world, the future has never felt so unpredictable. These are challenging times for us all and we hope we will overcome this in no distance time.
It has become neccessary that we become accountable to you on what we've been up to.
As shared with you in our previous report, we informed you how we were working hard in mobilizing resources with plans to support even more girls have access to quality education. We also reported how we secured a partnership with TY Danjuma Foundation to train public Primary and Junior Secondary School Teachers towards quality education and improved learning outcome of Girls. Unfortunately, current circumstances have led us to suspend current programs with hope to resuming once it’s safe to do so.
Right now, we struggle to do everything possible to sustain operations and to keep in touch with our girls. Now more than ever, our girls need us more especially with the alarming rates of domestic violence reported to us on a daily basis. Such alarming situations make us continue to build our hope for support from you. Beacuse the Girls need us now more than ever, so we do to you. If you’re able, please make donation to our project https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/girls-scholarship-program . If you’re unable to donate at this time, there are many other ways you can support us. You can advocate for us by sharing our mission with a family member, friend, or colleague. You can also creat a fundraiser for our project. Even a tagg or mention on your social media would mean alot to us.
In times like this, we're reminded of how interconnected we are. Thank you for being part of our community. Without you, none of our work is possible.
Stay Safe and Well with Love from
Keturah Shammah
for Girls Education Mission International
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Happy New DECADE!
Welcome to our Decade of Possibilities and Greetings on behalf of Girls Education Mission International. As I reflect on all that GEM has accomplished in 2019, your sercifice of resources, time and supportive engagements with our work is one of the biggest headlines ringing in my mind. You have been such a bright beacon of support for our whole community. When we announced our partnership with TY Danjuma Foundation and asked for support for the #GirlsEducationNowOrNever program last year, it was in the hope that we could expand our reach and build upon previous work in our communities while giving more opportunities for more girls to complete their education. We didn’t know how it will go and we weren’t sure what the response would be, but you have exceeded our wildest dreams.Together, we mobilized, inspired and changed the lives of girls for better. Our project "Girls Education Now Or Never" has enabled over 100 secondary school girls complete their education with dignity, having 67 of them trained on various vocational skills who enjoyed five months monthly mentoring sessions where we distributed over 5000 Sanitary Pads. What an incredible year we leave behind us! Together, we mobilized, inspired and accelerate the transformation of our communities. We would like to thank you by sharing photo highlights of our work in the last 12 months. This link https://www.girlseducationmission.org/blog/our-2019-in-photos.html showcases the incredible work that your engagements has made possible.
Swinging into 2020, we are working hard in mobilizing resources with plans to support even more girls have access to quality education. We are thrilled to enter into the decade of Possibilities with amazing Possibility stories. On January 24th, the International Day for Education, we have signed an agreement of partnership with TY Danjuma Foundation to train public Primary and Junior Secondary School Teachers in Plateau State towards quality education of teachers and improved learning outcome most especially of the Girl Child.
WHAT'S Next? At GEM, we never settle, we are committed to finding solutions and creating lasting impact through advocating for a better society where the rights of girls especially that of education is respected. And we believe those solutions can come from anyone, anywhere at anytime, that’s why we trust in passionate, committed and supportive people like YOU. I am delighted to inform you that our project https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/girls-scholarship-program/ is qualified to participate in the 2020 'Girl Fund' and 'Little by Little' campaigns coming up March 6th - 13th and 23rd - 27th. The Campaign is going to be a chance to have our Project win Bonus and Prizes. As you are aware, making impact is our mission, however funding has been the barrier. These funraising Campaigns hereby is an opportunity for YOU to make a lasting impact through DONATION, creating a fundraiser for our project or sharing our project with your networks as this will accelerate our support to ensuring girls' enrollment, retaintion and completion in school.
Finally, GEM has closed out 2019 with an enormous feeling of Pride, Joy and Gratitude. The progress we had made last year in ensuring 100 girls completed secondary education has been remarkable and commendable. Here’s to a great decade of Possibilities starting January.
Mark you Calender
Once a gain, thanks for making 2019 incredibly Possible.We look forward to doing more with you this year!
Cheers to you and yours,
Keturah Shammah
for: Girls Education Mission International
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Dear Partner,
In context of the Thanksgiving, may I take a moment to THANK YOU on behalf of the entire Girls Education Mission Interntaional.
Despite the challenges and barriers, our benficiaries have shown resiliancy and have rallied together to challenge barriers that hinders their education not complete. We’re celebrating their achievements today, as well as the thousands of supporters like you who help make it possible for them to go school.
As an orgisation we were able to record success recently as follows.
In September we were selected and Served as 2019 SPEA!K Champions by CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizens Participation. you can read excerpt of the our role though this link https://nnngo.org/keturah-speak/
In October, we observed the International Day of the Girl Child with a vocational skill acquisition training for over 60 girls who have just completated their Secondary Education but may not further their education soon.
in November and in context of the 16 Days of Activitism against Gender Violence, we were able to Lunch the #IamPossible Campaign which aimed to advocate with girls to SPEAK! #IamPossible against any form of Gender Violence. https://thenigeriastandard.com.ng/2019/11/27/believe-in-yourselves-ngo-tells-girls/
Together, we make our mission Possible. Thank you for your support.
With gratitude,
From All of us at Girls Education Mission International
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