Secondary School Girls’ Empowerment Summit for Sustainable Development

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  • FUNDED $5000
  • NEEDED $3000
  • GOAL $8000
  • FUNDED 63%

November 20-22, 2020

This project aims at empowering more than 100 secondary schools girls coming from three regions of Togo where girls’ education is a true challenge. The three regions located in northern Togo are the places where the education of girls is suffering. Our goal is to empower girls for sustainable development. Our core objectives are to endow these adolescent girls with tools they can use to fight for their autonomy, explore educational opportunities for girls, raise girls’ awareness on their hidden skills, and help them unleash their leadership potential. We believe that if girls are given equal chances as far as education is concerned, they will be able to support their families, take care of their children, and change the world. With this project, we also envision to boost girls’ access to higher education through sessions on university applications.

More than 98 million adolescent girls in the world do not go to school. Many of these girls are in the northern Togo where some families tend to think girls should not go to school. Boys are thought to have the whole privilege and to be the most endowed with intelligence to go to school and to take care of the family later. Some girls grow up thinking this is normal and that they do not possess any skill to stand out or to contribute to their families’ or to their communities’ well-being. Worst of all is that some grew up in this context and happy to stay at home considering themselves as the ones who should stay at home and do all the house work. Further, they are many those girls who would love to set foot in school but cannot make it because of the bias on girls or because of the financial challenges. Today most of the girls who are at home have gone to school but quickly abandoned because of the burden of the parents on them to get married, because of poverty which pushes them to accept any proposal. Others give up because of early pregnancies, lack of support, ignorance.

Goals and Objectives

This project aims at empowering more than 100 secondary schools girls coming from three regions of Togo where girls’ education is a true challenge. The three regions located in northern Togo are the places where the education of girls is suffering. Our goal is to empower girls for a sustainable development. Our core objectives are to endow these adolescent girls with tools they can use to fight for their autonomy, explore educational opportunities for girls, raise girls’ awareness on their hidden skills, and help them unleash their leadership potential. We believe that if girls are given equal chances as far as education is concerned, they will be able to support their families, take care of their children and change the world. Through this project, we envision to boost girls’ access to higher education.

Beneficiaries

This project will benefit hundred high achieving adolescent girls from under deserved areas where girls’ education is still a challenge. Beneficiaries will come from Central, Kara and Savannah region. Only students from 3è, 2nde and 1ère classes will attend the summit. These girls will be empowered on education mainly how to prepare their transition to higher education; leadership; entrepreneurship.

Expected Results

Our project aims at reaching out to hundred adolescent girls who struggle to achieve higher goals in education. After this summit, hundred adolescent girls will become leaders in their communities. The trained girls will bring their impact through their successful education. They will bring joy and reduce poverty in their communities. Participants will be able to take healthy and courageous risks. Further, they will develop self-esteem and will empower in their turn their peers in their schools, communities through sensitizations. Parents will start sending their kids to school.

Innovation

This is going to be the first event ever done in our community. It will definitely bring excitement, undeniable impact and change. Planned sessions are designed to ignite power in the girls and teach them skills that allow them to believe in themselves.