By Lekodi Magombo | Programme Officer
To begin, thank you to all our supporters, and readers last year. We immensely appreciate you keeping the dream alive with all your donations. Many thanks and we look forward to having you with us this coming year! Here are a few highlights from the end of 2017:
We welcomed a new partnership with GlobeMed (http://www.globemed.org/ ) which partners organisations with universities, empowering students and communities to work together to improve the health of people living in poverty around the world. We are looking forward to partnering together with the wonderful youth from Georgia State University in the year to come.
Girl Rise to Potential have been working with 24 girls between the ages of 16 and 24 who dropped out of school due to lack of finance or pregnancy. By teaching these girls baking, they helped them gain income to pay for fees and buy food and everyday necessities. End of year review sessions showed the girls had been able to raise enough money to continue baking and support their families. The Chief of the village expressed their appreciation for the work that the group is doing. On top of this they received a donation of a sewing machine which will be used to teach tailoring in the coming year. We are eagerly waiting to see what the girls will do.
In celebration of 5 years since the first Dreamers graduated in 2012, we have been interviewing alumni to hear what they have been up to since graduation. Read about how Elita is continuing to use positive role modeling to encourage girls to aspire to higher education http://www.aghcafrica.org/our-stories-2016-2017/2017/11/17/inspiring-girls-to-aspire-for-tertiary-education, how McPherson and Akulu developed their SWD project, Zaluso, in to a flourishing art collective, as well as being commissioned to use their art in social projects such as painting murals in schools for Voluntary Service Overseas http://www.aghcafrica.org/our-stories-2016-2017/2017/12/19/zaluso-arts, and how Frank was inspired to follow his dreams through his creative recycling project, Litter Free Zone http://www.aghcafrica.org/our-stories-2016-2017/2017/12/18/lets-go-litter-free.
Exciting times as we begin the new-year. We look forward to the current projects completing their trainings, growing their projects and graduating, and then welcoming a whole new cohort of Dreamers in the second part of 2018. We'll be sharing more stories of success from current and former Dreamers along the way.
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