Girls Empowerment
We help girls achieve their ambitions and work to create an equal world.
We believe that today's girls are tomorrow's leaders. Through our Girls Dare to Lead program, we're ensuring that girls are able to step forward and take up their rightful place in the world as capable, ambitious and bold leaders alongside men. We want a world where people of every gender can pursue their dreams without bias or other barriers holding them back. Where girls grow up to be confident, resilient leaders. We are driven by the belief our society and economy would be better if women and girls were valued as equal to men and boys.
Championing Girls' Leadership & Education
The success of every nation depends on equal representation. We are working to break down inequalities and create a world inside and outside the classroom that welcomes and nurtures young women’s contributions and leadership. Our Girls Dare to Lead program runs as bootcamp meetings, in-school and after-school girls’ clubs. This program was developed to teach girls to build confidence and strong support networks, increase knowledge around reproductive health, empower girls with skills to create wealth and develop their decision-making skills.
The Girls Dare to Lead Program aids in the development and education of girls between the ages of 10 and 18 – a crucial time when a girl’s future potential and opportunities can flourish through education, skills learning, and social support, or be stunted by the irreversible effects of child marriage, early pregnancy, HIV, and other preventable hardships.
Our PadHER Project Keeps Girls Learning
Through sexual and reproductive health education, we work to ensure that girls have access to menstrual health knowledge and hygiene supplies to build their self-confidence and manage their periods safely and with dignity.
We also train teachers to run menstrual hygiene classes, where girls are taught how to make reusable sanitary towels. At the classes they have open discussions about periods, which is helping to reduce the stigma and makes girls feel more comfortable.
We’re ending poverty by empowering girls to lead.
Empowering girls with skills and knowledge
Alongside running workshops for community members, we have implemented our Girls Dare to Lead program through regular girls’ hub meetings, in-school and after-school girls’ clubs. This program was developed to teach girls to build confidence and strong support networks, increase knowledge around reproductive health, empower girls with skills to create wealth and develop their decision-making skills.
The Girls Dare to Lead Program aids in the development and education of girls between the ages of 10 and 18 – a crucial time when a girl’s future potential and opportunities can flourish through education, skills learning, and social support, or be stunted by the irreversible effects of child marriage, early pregnancy, HIV, and other preventable hardships.
By building a vibrant community of girls and young women, we’re empowering girls to lead and end poverty, while holding the power to create opportunities for themselves and their communities.
We empower women and girls to take the lead and pursue their dreams
In Girls Dare to Lead bootcamps, our girls get and give peer mentorship, learn new skills, and have a place to be unapologetically ambitious. More than 7,000 girls in 13 countries participate in our bootcamps, and new ones are starting every day. Dare to Lead is designed to help girls see themselves as leaders in a world that often tells them they’re not. At the heart of the program is a curriculum that helps young teens embrace their leadership superpowers and reject stereotypes about what girls can’t do.
Girls in our programming are provided with opportunities to take a stand against some of the most critical barriers to girls’ success as they develop their agency, exercise their voice, and build their power.
To stop violence, especially against women and girls, education is the key.
Why our approach is good for girls
Our emphasis on leadership strengths and real talk is empowering and protective. When girls are introduced to a more expansive definition of leadership, they’re more likely to see themselves as leaders. When girls know how to identify and push back against unfair treatment, they’re less likely to internalize limiting messages and blame themselves when they experience bias. And when girls take positive risks and learn new skills, they can feel a powerful sense of agency and accomplishment
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