Global Girl is expanding into Afghanistan and South Africa!!!
Hello friends, hope you’ve been well!
The big announcement that we want to share with you is our new partnership with the award-winning international NGO Skateistan - an innovative organization that runs skateboarding and life skills educational programs in Afghanistan, South Africa and Cambodia. We will be partnering with them to launch our Blended Learning Leadership Initiative in September/October, with both their South African team and their Afghani teams. We look forward to this being a long-term partnership toward the mobilization of young women in these countries. Go check out their award-winning short film Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) – it won both a BAFTA and an Oscar. We also have a new partnership with an organization in Jordan in the works so stay tuned for our updates on that as well.
Another big one for us – we met with the Girls’ Schools Association in the UK and are exploring ways that we can partner with them to offer some leadership programming within school programs in the UK, that focus on community development leadership and fundraising for GGP programming. Additionally, we have been accepted into the Cisco matching program so we can work with Cisco employees around some fundraising for our programming as well. We're grateful for their support!
We have an update on ‘The Book’ announced in our last blog post, please read here. Our young authors have finished writing their stories and we’re editing and illustrating now as we prepare for publication. We will be hosting a crowdfunding campaign starting mid-June to raise funds for us to publish this book so watch out for details.
“This book truly has been a work of collaboration in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We knew that our girls were in isolation and lockdown in their respective countries. Often in situations with many people living in small spaces, without the luxuries of regular internet or television. The book provided a channel to engage with them and support them in this difficult time. We worked with them in writing their stories and are working for this book to create some economic independence for our authors. We can't wait to share this YA book with you. Please support the fundraiser, we will have more information to share with you on that soon.”
We are very grateful to be working with Fran Borg-Wheeler, who is doing some pro bono work with our director and our board around charity leadership management. To our supporters: you are the best. We love your enthusiasm for our work and love to hear from you with ideas for fundraising that you may want to do for us. Many of you have used your birthdays, anniversaries and other life events to create fundraisers for GGP on Facebook, we cannot thank you enough for your thoughtful gestures.
The online fundraisers on social media are pretty easy to set up and all you have to do is choose Global Girl Project as the charity of your choice. (Here’s a helpful link with instructions if that’s been on your mind). We welcome any other creative ways that you would like to support our work and always look forward to hearing from you here on the website and on social media too.
Much gratitude,
Julia Lynch, Founding Director.