By Heather Mahardy | Founding President
Dear Friends of Enhance Worldwide,
January 2018 marks the third anniversary of Enhance Worldwide being operational in the Entoto area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, actively challenging the threats of child marriage, institutional care (orphanage), street violence, heightened risk for HIV/AIDS, and trafficking. To mark this milestone, and all of our participants' continued success, we are celebrating with a holiday party and life skills event through our Pathways Project!
Girls and young women need life skills like confidence, assertiveness, and critical thinking to navigate the risks and challenges on the road out of poverty. Our Pathways Project provides opportunities for girls and young women to learn these essential skills in a safe, secure, and youth-friendly environment. Each month, we develop workshops responding to the critical needs of the girls and young women in our programs.
Enhance Worldwide is growing and you can help! Our Rising Autonomy program supports young women from impoverished households in the early years of their independence. The program is based on the fact that privilege emerges from privilege whereas social mobility is increasingly rare. In order to ensure that girls from underprivileged backgrounds foster agency, we support them until they are living independently. This might mean financial aid and support services for a university or vocational school, lease assistance for their first apartment, financial literacy, or mentoring and support with life skills and healthy relationships. While many organizations cease support upon high school graduation, we recognize the vulnerability of young adults and established this program to create a tangible pathway to independence. Any contribution will help create this pathway.
Our field team and Board of Directors work tirelessly to expand our program offerings, program reach, and the number of constituents served in the Entoto area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We can’t wait to see the courageous action Enhance Worldwide will take in 2018!
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