COVID19 Aside, Our Girls are Forging Ahead and Creating Real Change

As part of our Blended Learning Leadership initiative, we're so excited and proud of our girls for what they have managed to accomplish in the last couple of weeks in partnership with Foundation TOYA in Haiti and the BestSpring Foundation in Nigeria - 20 of our girls have been able to run their community action projects tackling issues of waste management, teenage pregnancy, domesticity and gender inequality, especially during this time of COVID-19 when there have been so many restrictions around getting together and working together. 

We are blown away by the determination of our girls and the ability to mobilize their community members. We have received so much feedback from them around the privilege they feel in being able to lead in this way and have other young girls and older community members see them as role models. 

Even though our exchange program this year has been postponed, we are working with our volunteer Uduak to create an extended version of our online programming and will start working with our girls from Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Rwanda and Nepal in September through monthly online leadership sessions.

A big shout out to Emma Lucas in the UK whose is 15 years old and volunteered her time this past week to help transcribe all of our videos from our Blended Learning Leadership initiative so that we can get them translated into Arabic and Farsi for our upcoming partnerships in Jordan and Afghanistan. As you can tell, there is no age limit to volunteering with us! Big love also to Disney who, via women at Disney, have managed to find translators for our Arabic videos. 

New event alert! Global Girl Project in the early planning stages of organizing a digital leadership event in the new year as a fundraising opportunity. We're looking for highly skilled volunteers who want to help us bring this into fruition. If you want to give your time to plan, create, and run this event please reach out. and if you would like to be a speaker, or sponsor, or workshop host? Get in touch!

Much gratitude,
Julia Lynch, Founding Director.