Go Girl against teen pregnancy due to covid 19

Dear Supporters,

We hope you and your family are safe and healthy. 

Covid-19 and the related measures keep impacting the girls and communities that the five local teams are working with. Once again, we are seeing the human capacity to learn and adapt at work. This is also the case with the five Go Girl Teams in Kenya, Cameroon, India, Indonesia and Ghana. 

In Indonesia for example, the IndoCompetence team is turning the lockdown situation into an opportunity to reach out online with a writing competition and gather stories of girls and women who have gone through teenage pregnancy. Twenty of the stories are gathered in a book that will serve to open the conversation on the topic. 

In Cameroon schools are still in lockdown. The Cho Ngafor foundation is aware of their important role in providing a safe space for especially girls, by continued activities in the production of hygienic pads by girls. 

The Go Girl teams are all getting ready to share their experience in adapting to old and new challenges, at The Constellation’s Global Learning Festival (V-GLF). The Faith Foundation Team from Shillong for example will organise a session for 60 international participants where they will elaborate on their engagement with communities during the Market place session. 

We are grateful for the strengths that the lAfrikana, our Go Girl partner in Nairobi, is adding to the Kenyan team organising the V-GLF: their technical and bilingual skills add a lot of value to the event. 

Although the schools in Ghana are open again, we see that the impact of lockdown has been tremendous. Our work continues to have open conversations with the girls on for instance the menstrual cycle and with families to explain the importance of education. 

Through the Go Girl Project, teams and partners of The Constellation in Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, India, and Kenya are engaging with teenagers and their families to help prevent teenage pregnancy and school drop out that often are a result of Covid-19 measures. This project is financed by crowdfunding and by donations from the Trust for Local Response, and the Triodos Foundation.  

In July, Go Girl Ghana and The Constellation organised a crowdfunding campaign, and we are grateful to the 26 donors. A sum of 2273 euros was raised, to which the Triodos Foundation recently added 10,000 euros to support the Go Girl processes in Kenya, Cameroon, and India.

Your continued support is needed and highly appreciated.