Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls

by The African Impact Foundation
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls
Build a Youth Community Center to Empower Girls

Project Report | Aug 17, 2018
Empowerment Skills

By Memory Mundia | Project Coordinator

Vegetable Garden
Vegetable Garden

One of the things that the girls learn as part of the AGEP ( Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program) is some of the life skills that can give them an income.  The challenges that girls are confronted with—high rates of gender-based violence, unsafe sex that puts girls at risk for unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection, school dropout, lack of economic resources and income-generating options, lack of agency and participation—are linked together through their root causes. 

Three years ago the garden project was introduced as part of the learning program.  It’s not just a routine for the girls to go and help out with farm but it’s also used as a learning platform. The girls have learnt how to grow crops at their various homes. The skills have given them future income generation and the knowledge that they can provide for their family, now and in the future. The girls are also fed, which will help their concentration levels and learning capacity whilst in school. This fits in with the Global Goals #2 Zero Hunger and #4 Quality Education. 

On the other we are busy putting things in place to kick start the building project with funds raised so far. 

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The African Impact Foundation

Location: Muizenberg, Western Cape - South Africa
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Project Leader:
Michelle Procter
Ware , Hertfordshire United Kingdom

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