Girl Power Project - GPP

REPORT ON USE OF FUNDS AND SITUATION

28^th November, 2016

GLOBAL GIVING REPORT 2016 NOVEMBER

Project Title:  Girls Educational Challenge/Girl Power

Funds Raised so far: 3,130.87

Reporting Period: 28^th November 2016

ACTIVITIES/ EXPENSES

When you invest in a girl, the whole world benefits?

 Girls Educational Challenge /Girl Power Project is one of ChildHelp Sierra Leone activity that empowers girls dramatically to improve the wellbeing of their families and their communities changing lives in society. This is an answer to the call made ‘’ Don’t leave No One Behind’’.

 Our Girl Power Project is a transformational and post-Ebola crisis project, as it targeted girls within the bordering of Guinea and Sierra Leone.  When girls are entering adolescence: the most vulnerable juncture of their lives, are face with the choices that will lead them to a life of early marriage, pregnancy and disease OR a life of education, economic independence and delayed marriage.

 Objective: Ending early child marriage including harmful traditional practices through open and distance learning for 344 girls aged 10-18 years within these 4 months and still ongoing with a proposed target of 18 proposed communities in Bombali and Kambia districts, boundaring Guinea.

 Donors: Global Giving UK/USA (support given by other agencies and their inputs are not in this report)

 Activities in 4 different phases include:

1: Introduction to Girl Power: ChildHelp worked with communities, created positive learning environments where girls stayed well, learn, and excel during the outbreak. Learning materials distributed to girls with recaps to facilitate discussion and understanding of essential social survival skills in: Personal Empowerment, Peer Pressure, Communication Skills, Puberty and Understanding Our Bodies, Violence against Girls

2: Developing Mentors: The same identified girls were reached with the curriculum which dives deeper into: Healthy Relationships, Sex Education, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Rights and Responsibilities, and Leadership.

3: Camp Girl Power: 43 Excelled girls in the first two phases are selected by their peers to participate in Camp Girl Power in advanced workshops, Role Playing, Mutual Problem Solving and Mentoring, to demonstrate and reinforce their skill sets, celebrate their achievements, and connect with each other at Camp. Camp graduated girls are equipped to share their knowledge and skills with girls in their school and community.

4: Mentoring in Practice: Each Peer Mentor returns home to empower other community to know their rights and teach their girl-peers on decision making about their minds, bodies and futures through: Life Skills, Healthy Relationships and Healthy Bodies and Minds.

 Our Results:

• Empowered girls dramatically improve the wellbeing of their families and their communities.
• With the support of other groups, 344 girls’ at the most critical juncture of their lives were targeted. Girls’ equipped with skills to avoid early pregnancy and disease.
• Girls’ voices and rights are respected.
• ChildHelp team has seen no dropouts, no pregnancies and no child marriages among the nearly 344 girls who have gone through comprehensive beta tests of The Project phases as this project is replicated in other districts.
• Empowered women and girls through education and training, raises economic productivity and reduces infant mortality.
• Contributed improved health and nutrition, and increases the chances of education for the next generation.

 XPrepared and reported by: Kaprie J G Thoronka

Director

ChildHelp Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone

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