Time for another update already? Days fly by here at the GGP HQ!

We are less than a month away from fully launching our Blended Learning Leadership Initiative and we are super excited for everyone we will be welcoming to the program this time around. We met this week with our new program facilitators from Jordan, Afghanistan and South Africa to prepare them to run the program in their regions. We're going to be working with 10 girls in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, 10 girls in Johannesburg, South Africa and 10 girls in Karak, Jordan, as well as 10 girls in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and 10 girls in Lagos, Nigeria. That’s a whopping 50 girls who will be starting with GGP this September. We are simply thrilled to have them all join us and we are grateful to both Skateistan and Madrasati for our new partnerships.

Our new Program Facilitators from Skateistan and Madrasati.

We are working around the clock to try and make adjustments to our program. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, our girls in places like Johannesburg may not be able to meet in person so we're looking at ways to work with our partners to provide the resources necessary to do this 100% online. We're working with our partners in Jordan around a new school schedule that's being set by their government in preparation for a possible second wave of the COVID-19 virus. We're really being put to the test to be as flexible and adaptable as possible, and we’re prepared to rise to that challenge. It’s something that we want to teach our girls here, too.

Meanwhile, here are a couple more amazing illustrations from our upcoming book “More Than One Voice”, which is currently with the typesetter as we speak being readied for publication at the beginning of October. Major gratitude and a huge shout out to our volunteers who we are going to highlight a bit more later - Max, Camila, Kate, Paloma and Ruksana, who have been working day and night to bring this project to fruition. We can't wait for you to meet our inspiring girls and read their stories. Watch out for the announcement so you can get your copy online – we will have physical copies and e-book versions. For our fundraising donors that supported our recent book campaign, if you chose the book as a perk, you are going to love receiving it.

Andddd drum roll for our next major announcement please! We’ve got a global digital leadership summit in the works and we want you to be a part of it. Scheduled for mid-November this year, we are looking for people from all over the world who would be interested in possibly speaking, leading a workshop, or collaborating in any other way. Send us your ideas, thoughts, suggestions, we are all ears for what you’d like to see from this summit. Simply head to our Contact Page right here and let us know.

Much gratitude,
Julia Lynch, Founding Director.

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.