Our experience shows us that Girls are faced with challenges as they sail through school emanating from: gender roles, poverty, and Gender based violence. These and many others cut short their dreams to be what they want to be. To bridge the gap of gender equality in education, there is need to identify "girls whose dreams are at risk" meaning girls from marginalized communities, poor Income schools and poor backgrounds to be mentored on their career and leadership aspirations
Very few girls are likely to achieve and pursue their career dreams in especially non-traditional jobs. Why?Girls are faced with challenges as they sail through school emanating from: gender roles, poverty, and Gender based violence. These and many others cut short their dreams to be what they want to be. To bridge the gap of gender equality in education, there is need to identify "girls whose dreams are at risk" meaning girls from marginalized communities, poor Income schools, poor backgrounds.
The girls identified to be at risk of losing their career dreams will be trained and mentored by girl mentors to develop confidence, new skills and knowledge in pursuing their dreams. They will be assisted in identifying possible resources and networks to fall back to in pursuit of their dreams including but not limited to sponsorship opportunities. Girls will be supported to initiate career clubs supported by senior women teachers and Girl mentors to conduct bi-weekly sessions on career talks
200 Girls will be empowered annually to complete their education in pursuit of their career dreams hence reduced gender-based violence, poverty and early child marriages. Social norms that keep girls away from aspiring for better-paying jobs and non-traditional careers will be challenged due to increased awareness about importance of girl education
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
