Empower a Girl: For Self-Reliance

Mentorship program for students at Kole Intellectual Forum to develop their skills and knowledge to face future challenges

For about 10 years, Kole Intellectual Forum (KIFA) has designed a mentorship program that is meant to target the desires of their students as they wish to see them being empowered to face the serious challenges in life in future.

Basically, the program is aimed at:

• Targeted Skill and Knowledge Transfer: with this they (the organization) focus on developing skills and transferring specific, often niche, knowledge relevant to home economics, role, or context to which it can be applied after study.
• Addressing the Needs of Underrepresented Groups (the had been out of school students): the team engage on promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion by providing tailored support and guidance to those students who may face unique challenges due to their background or gender. They help increase their visibility and opportunities
• Structured Support for At-Risk Students: with this program too, the guidance have to  target at-risk students’ unstable backgrounds, and they offer for them a structured academic, social, and emotional support to improve their grades, attendance, behavior, and overall well-being.
• Specific Goal Achievement: unlike other special programs, the program is meant to help participants define and achieve in designing their SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-sensitive) goals that are tied to the program's specific objectives.
• Creation of a Safe and Trusting Environment: the specialized program is created in a structured, confidential, and safe space where mentees feel comfortable discussing specific concerns, challenges, and aspirations without fear of repercussion, which is especially important for sensitive topics.

In essence, these special mentorship programs designed by Kole Intellectual Forum is meant to offer a strategic, intentional, and customized approach to personal and professional development that maximizes positive outcomes for both the students and the supporting organization.

The purpose of daily school assembly at KIFA (Kole Intellectual Forum)

With the support from the donors on the platform of GlobalGiving to KIFA and to foster a sense of community and discipline, deliver important announcements, and promote the school's values and culture, at the Institute of Home Economics of Kole Intellectual Forum, daily school assemblies are used to help the Institute to provide for their students a platform for collective learning, celebrating their achievements, and help them to develop social, moral, and emotional skills those are encouraging them to foster a good way of promoting teamwork and good skills of communication. 

In this process, the Institute is able to use the assemblies to bring students, teachers, and staff together, creating a cohesive school community and affirming the school's identity and aspirations; instill important life skills such as punctuality, organization, and focus; communicate and reinforce collective values and can serve as a platform for discussing social and moral issues; as well as helping them to bridge the gaps between different grade levels and build a culture of communication among students.