Empowering the Girl Child through Education

Dear GlobalGiving and Partners,

Empowering the Girl through Education Project is a life changing activity which has impacted a lot of lives for girls in rural Sierra Leone more especially the Northern Region. This project has become more popular due to its role in the lives of these girl-children, given rights and empowering these Girls has been the bedrock of this project, which has helped lot of girls regain their lost dignities.

The recent visit from GlobalGiving to our project sites made us realize that much needs to be done in terms of awareness raising about the felt needs of these beneficiaries. Though, the project has created a lot of impact but more needs to be done and also to better inform our donors about the growing demands of these beneficiaries we cater for. Our guest from globalgiving also visited an orphanage primary school run by the organisation which really needs attention to further continue its operations. The guest further held host of interviews with our beneficiaries and capture a lot of information which triggered her to commend all our work and your value contributions.

Our focus on rescuing these girls who has been engaged in forceful and early child marriages, teenage pregnancy, has increase considerable, due to the very fact that new strategies has been employed by the organisation to tackle such occurrences.

As our advocacy continues, we have identified 290 girls affected that need to continue their education. What we did to identify these girls, we used the supported ones to help their friends to come forward. Also, girls who were stopped from being early mothers, join their peers in advocacy, using themselves as an example of change.  

Furthermore, 50 schools were visited with messages of “I am a girl, Not a Bride” this message sends shock waves to these communities and traditional leaders.

Also, we join a national campaign called “Hands off our girls” this was launched by the country first lady. This was done after a police report shows that over 8500 girls were raped within a month. And the report further said that these figures are twice double than the once reported. And we further visited a rainbow center, where we met some of these girls and their stories were really touching. With this national cry Government declared the situation as “national Emergency”. Our campaign now is to advocate to law maker to increase punishment for perpetuators.

We really appreciate the support from donors to this project. Your supports have really put a lot of smiles into the faces of these girls.

These communities are facing serious Harmful Practices and our project has taken stiff measures on providing justice for victims. The prevalence of the Harmful Practices against girls, especially FGM and child marriage in Sierra Leone are among the highest in the world.

We wish to extend thanks to you as one of our generous supporters, who have worked with us to meet the need of our beneficiaries. Our heartfelt thanks goes to GlobalGiving and all our supporters for making this project a success.  Your partnership, donations, love and concerns, means a lot to us. We love you very much.

We cannot achieve this alone but with your support this can be achieved. We are still looking forward to your support in making this possible.