By Alice Osango | Omega GET UP Mother/Facilitator
Meet Alice who serves as a mentor in The Girls Empowerment Team of the Umoja Project (GET UP) program. GET UP addresses girls’ needs through programs focusing on health education, positive relationships, life skills and girls’ rights. GET UP leaders like Alice who writes below about her involvement in our program are trained to mentor these middle school and senior students in a two day retreat each year. Over 500 middle school female students participate in the GET UP Jr 9 times each term. Over 100 high school and college students participate in the GET UP Sr events every year like the one day retreat held on June 24, or the 4 day retreat held from July 31 to August 3rd.
Alice states, "Pregnancy that used to make our girls drop out of school is now history, thanks to GET UP mentorship." The support provided by the mentors and the support the girls get from each other help them excel in school. GET UP meetings introduce these girls to successful female professionals that they can use as role models when dreaming of their future. The GET UP meetings also provide sanitatry napkin supplies, another key factor in keeping adolescent girls in school. A special THANK YOU to the Sunrise Book Club in Indianapolis for funding the cost of those hygiene supplies every year.
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