Gender Equality Philippines Project #26078

#StandWithGirls in the Philippines!

by FundLife International

Project Report | Sep 16, 2023
Stepping Forward to Protecting Adolescent Girls

By Marie Angelique T. Villamor | Project Leader

Hurray on the Global Day of Play!

Dear Supporter,

The 3^rd Quarter of 2023 concluded with the #StandWithGirls campaign to further awareness, increase our impact to partner schools and communities, and widen our scope in terms of protection and participation of our adolescent girls and young women.

Our school and community partners undergone various and specific training to strengthen their support to our AGYW, and the non-binary. While our regular programming such as Mental Health Sessions, and Digital Skills Training have received positive impact from our AGYW.

To cap off the quarter, our adolescent girls and young women celebrated the International Youth Day and the Global Day of Play 2023 that centered on Environmental Sustainability. The AGYW and the non-binary tackled on different issues on climate change, sustainable cities, clean environment, and green skills. They used the power of play while tackling the undesirable effects of plastic wastes in the environment.

Here are some of our highlights of the last three months:

80 adults from partner schools and communities attended the Digital Skills Training and Upskilling, Psychological First Aid, and Capacity building on Strengthening Prevention against Human Trafficking through the 3-Pathway Program, Key Areas on Child Protection, and Equal Play Effect on Gender Equity.
75 adolescent girls attended the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Session.
60 adolescent girls were trained under the Digital Skills Pathway Program
50 adolescent girls and young women joined the training on basic life support, and self-defense.

With these varied and collective movements for our adolescent girls and young women, we always value their enthusiasm, commitment, and dedication in making their dreams into a reality. We always believe that our programs help to accelerating the Sustainable Development Goal of the 2030 United Nations Agenda. Finally, your continuous support of our programming, brings so much hope and engagement among the AGYW.

Thank you, Hope Bearers!

AGYW's taking part of a discussion on environment.

The girls learning the basic of self-defense.

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May 22, 2023
A New Beginning: Girls Got This in Full Circle

By Marie Angelique Villamor | Project Leader

Move for Equity Campaign with our Spartan Kids

Dear supporters,

A wonderful 2023 to all of you. As we continue our engagement with our community and school partners for the past months, we realized that there are a lot of new learning and discoveries from them. And these, in turn, have created endless opportunities for us to enhance our advocacy as well as develop programs that can further promote gender equity, better education, and empowerment to our adolescent girls and young women.

The active participation and interest of our adolescent girls in programs that truly befit them is something that we are extremely proud of. Indeed, a solid example of upholding UNCRC’s rights of the child to development and participation. Meanwhile, our Young Women achieved amazing milestones in terms of their chosen pathways.

Gender inclusivity is emphasized during the launching of our Uplift Education program specifically on Digital Skills Training and Upskilling of the youth. Our adolescent girls are enrolled in digital and literacy training where they learn content creation, programming, and web development, among other useful digital skills. A remarkable step for digital inclusion and gender equity.

Here are the highlights of our Adolescent Girls and Young Women:

51 adolescent girls from 4 major cities of Cebu (Talisay, Cebu, Mandaue, and Lapu-Lapu) participated in and established the Girls Got This Circle, a girl-led group under the Girls Got This (GGT) Program that initiates activities focused on active participation and girl protection.
Our TVL (Technical-Vocational-Livelihood) Young Women from Punta Princesa, Cebu City gained their National Certification (NCII) in Housekeeping and Culinary Arts, and completed their 3-month upskilling program.
Uplift Education program such as Digital Skills and Computer Literacy Training has started in three different schools - Marigondon National High School, Cebu City Don Carlos A. Gothong Memorial National High School, and Cordova Public College.
A total of 294 adolescent girls undergone the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Sessions across Metro Cebu.
More than 500 adolescent girls, young women and barangay officials across Metro Cebu joined and participated the Move for Equity Campaign to celebrate the International Women's Month.

Because of your unending support, the girls and young women have created a full circle of confidence, dedication, and perseverance to achieve their dreams.

Thank you, dream enablers!

Unlocking their potential in the digital space

Expressive Arts on one of Mental Health Sessions

Teamwork Training for our Girls

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Jan 18, 2023
Strengthening Ties with Program Partners for Girls

By Marie Angelique Villamor | Project Leader

Capacity building with Teachers in Sta. Rosa

Dear Supporter,

We hope this report finds you well.

The end of the year is almost upon us and we have been working doubly hard in the past several months to continue strengthening ties with our partner orgnizations and communities as well as reaching out to other vulnerable groups in and around the major cities of Cebu. Although finding the perfect venue and time to do our various scheduled activities have been quite challenging as face-to-face classes have resumed, we are also grateful as this makes reaching out to our community partners a lot faster and easier.

In the month of October, we have conducted Safe Spaces and Community Mentorship activities which have been wonderfully received. We have also conducted leadership and youth empowerment training sessions to give our partners the necessary knowledge and skills to become better versions of themselves. In the month of November, we also organized and capacitated Community and school partners on key areas on child participation - a move that proved to be very beneficial in this time and age of having social media as a platform for individual free speech.

Below are some of our milestones in the last three months:

September:

112 Adolescent Girls completed the Community Mentorship Sessions with topics on Personality Development, Adolescent Reproductive Health, and Mental Health for Young People

October:

51 Adolescent Girls who will be the next Girls Got This Champions and future mentors underwent Leadership and Youth Empowerment Training
Call Center Training started its first session under Employability Pathway in Sambag 1, Cebu City
Capacitated 98 school and community partners on Key Areas on Child Protection to 8 different communities and schools

November:

Conducted Mental Health Awareness Session to 115 adolescent girls in Talisay and Mandaue during the Children’s Month Celebration

What’s Next and Why?

To deepen the impact of the Girls Got This Program from the 2022 Project, the adolescent girls and young women will undergo leadership and youth empowerment tracks, and 3-Pathway Program: Hospitality and Operations Management Pathway, Entrepreneurship Pathway, and Digital Pathway with the overall goal of equipping them with various technical and soft skills. The skills they will learn under the different pathways will prepare them for the world of work, while also ensuring their school, community and youth mentors are capacitated in addressing their issues and concerns.

Ending 2022 will surely be a memorable year to date for these adolescent girls and young women for you have been with them throughout their journey. Here are some more details of these girls' achievement.

Parents on Positive Discipline Workshop

Leadership and Youth Empowerment Session

Mock Interview Session with Young Women

One of the Call Center Training Exercises

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