By Hannah Bangura | Field Officer
Dear Donors and GlobalGiving,
Empowering the Girl through Education Project is a Life Changing activity which has improved the lives of girls in Rural Sierra Leone more especially in the North Region. The project has been playing a significant role in the lives of many girls and based on this it has become more popular due to its role in the lives of these girl children, giving rights and power to girls has been the bedrock of this project, which has helped a lot of girls regain their lost dignity. The project also focuses on helping girls who have been engaged in forceful and early child marriages, teenage pregnancy with food and non food items. The project has separated these marriages and the children are now back in school.
With the support from Crossroads Foundation who provided a 40ft container of goods that was distributed to girls, women and other vulnerable groups within Bombali District. Also, Crossroads Foundation donated 25 Desktop Computers that have established an ICT centre for girls, which has so far trained over 250 girls. This will make these girls become independent and self-reliant. Bulk of these girls have never set their eyes on computers talkless about using them or learning how to use them. This initiative has catapulted these girls and the nation as a whole. This training has attracted a lot of girls within and outside the Bombali District, and we will use this platform to campaign on ending early and forceful marriages, teenage pregnancy and FGM.
Also, the project provided food to young girls on various occasions. With the recent reopening of schools we supported girls with books, uniforms, school bags, pens, pencils and support for extra classes to those that are facing public examinations.
The project still continues with its engagement to end or stop early and forceful marriages. From our engagement, we came to realise that bike riders are more in the habit of impregnating young girls, our focus now as an organisation is to hold focus group discussion with these bike riders in an effort to cushion this situation.
We are working very hard along with law makes to popularise the child right act, so people will be well aware about it and also emphases on the dangers of rape and sexual assult.
With this we want to say thank you for your continued support and we hope we will be able to support more children if funds are available.
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