The first step in a girl’s Global Girl Project journey is the Global Girl Leadership Initiative, a three-month leadership and social change programme.
“After this programme I think I can achieve anything that I want to. Being a girl, it’s our responsibility to make our society a better place to live.”
The first step on a lifelong journey
Global Girl Project offers girls a lifelong community to support them in their journey as leaders and social change agents.
Girls begin their journey with a 3-month facilitated programme - the Global Girl Leadership Initiative (GGLI), formally the Blended Learning Leadership Initiative - which is delivered to groups of girls in their local languages by local facilitators. During this three months girls learn about the power of their own voice, reflect on social issues, learn the basics of programme development, and run their own community event.
How does it work?
Over eleven sessions, delivered weekly across three months, the girls are taken through a bespoke curriculum during which they learn to use their voices through engaging with different types of leadership around the world, as well as project and event design and planning.
Within the sessions, girls participate in activities that teach them about their power and voice as girls. They learn about what other girls around the world are doing to create change, and what tools they can use to do the same themselves.
Each graduate from the facilitated programme receives a grant towards their continuing education (e.g. school fees), and is welcomed into the wider Global Girl family as part of our changemaking network - Global Graduates Connect (GGC).
Our programme facilitators
We partner with organisations and schools working within the Majority World with girls between the ages of 13 and 18 years, who live in poverty.
Facilitators from our partner organisations, including GGLI graduates, are trained to deliver the GGLI via our online learning platform. Through this platform, the facilitators access curriculum content and materials, which is then delivered by them in-person to groups of 10 girls in each location.
“The [GGLI] is not just a programme to teach the girls how to be a leader or do a community event - it’s also a family, because they have found a way to have hope, they have found a way where they can feel good and confident as a girl, they can learn how to make change, and they know they have the power.
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