By Emma Thompson | Project Contributor
When the world shut down due to COVID-19, Women’s Global Education Project’s programs had to adapt quickly to serve our communities’ most urgent needs. Schools in Kenya shut down in mid-March, and hundreds of WGEP scholars returned home to villages that were not well-equipped to deal with a possible viral outbreak, and did not have the proper resources for remote learning at home.
Doreen, a WGEP Kenya scholar who attends Egerton University, highlighted the barriers to remote learning in rural Kenya: "The nature of studying at home is a challenge because there's no electrical power, and time is limited because of domestic chores."
Over the past three months, WGEP has provided battery-powered radios and solar lanterns to 203 girls so that they can continue their school lessons while at home, and can study at night after completing household chores. Additionally, WGEP has distributed food and cleaning supplies to 659 girls and women to combat food insecurity during the crisis, and to ensure that families stay safe and healthy through the pandemic.
Though there has been a shift in programming, our current work exemplifies our mission to ensure that girls and women in rural communities have access to education, and helping them to build better lives. Thank you for your continued support! Any donations to our project will support our ongoing COVID-19 response efforts.
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