By fatuma abdulkadir adan | Executive Director
We are getting ready for the International Women’s Day Celebration! It is coming a bit early and by the time you will be reading this report we will be all sweaty fighting it out with 28 other teams in Nairobi Kenya. Thanks to your support we are reaching more communities and more girls in school. We are still exploring ways of ensuring no girls drop out and for those who do, how hope to turn our tailoring center into a social enterprise to generate more income.
The women in HODI are the champions for the girls and on this important occasion we will be celebrating those who are bold for change. This are mothers who have never played football but are coming out to champion a great cause for Gender Equality. We are using peer education to ensure no girl is out of school and these are the peer educators. Imagine it was so simple when we started but we never thought it will have such a huge impact. The peer educators are now the champions and we are concurring one village to the next.
In one school called SKM, the head teacher said ..."girls are not only staying in school but are also contesting the elective positions of student leaders and 2 years now 2015-2017 they have produced the school president. Thank you to the peer education program". In the past 3 years not a single girl has dropped out of school, they are more open and share issues that affect them. Thank you for helping us break the silence and be a voice for the girls.
In Lakartinya Primary the head teacher said...."if it were not for HODI then there will be no Lakartinya"
It is sentiments like this that give us hope and reason to believe and continue to champion the girls in Marsabit and Northern Kenya.
Without your support it will not have been possible to reignite this fire of change and the girls would not have been able to stay in class at all. Gratitude is all we have to you for being part of such an important life changing intervention!!!
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