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Inspiring Darfur Girls to Achieve
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Summary
The Inspiring Darfur Girls to Achieve Project provides girls who leave school with funds and emotional coaching to start again, through scholarships and mentors at girl-friendly community centers.
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Received $1,621 from 29 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In Darfur, Sudan it is normal for girls to drop out of school. $15 per year can be an insurmountable expense for many families to spend for each of their children. When money is scarce, boys are often chosen to go to school, while girls work for income or help at home. Even worse, girls are targets of sexual attacks and resulting social stigmas, which in many cases cause them never to return to finish their studies. RI is committed to keeping girls in school through scholarships and mentoring.
Activities
RI is working with the locally based Women’s Charity Society to develop girl-friendly community spaces. Mentors will offer "stay in school" support, serve as role models, and lead extracurricular activities that improve self-esteem and performance.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,621
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $23,379
Total Funding Goal: $25,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Local women and educators will carry out the program’s activities, which will promote a long-term support system that will influence generations of girls. The program will give the future female leaders the tools to learn and dream again.
Project Message
“Women in Darfur do not have the opportunity to participate in decision-making. I want to change that, and I think education is the key.”
- Miriam Abdallah, RI Women's Development Officer
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on January 18, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 23, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
Women's Centers and Education Scholarships
By Rana Lintotawela - Sudan Program Officer, January 18, 2008 03:58 PM
As a first step toward RI’s “Scholarships Inspiring Darfur Girls to Achieve” initiative, RI is working with donors from Global Giving and private foundations to rehabilitate two and construct two new women’s centers. The Darfur Women’s Centers will serve as female-friendly community spaces in Kabkabiya, a remote village in North Darfur. The durable centers will host continuing education programs for women and girls, and will serve as a resource for a girls mentoring program a mentoring network of women that offer “stay in school” and extracurricular support for secondary education that can counteract the hurdles girls currently face attending school. Through participation in the community centers, RI will select recipients of scholarships to provide girls who are forced to stop going to school with the funds and emotional coaching they need to resume their education. The new centers are strategically located to ensure that communities of internally displaced persons and host communities, have equitable access to the services provided.
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