BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls
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Summary
BRAC's ELA project will provide 500 teenage girls in Uganda with 20 safe spaces, informal education and micro loans. This will help them lead confident, self-reliant and dignified lives
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Received $13,730 from 204 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There are 600 million teenage girls living in poverty in the developing world. This project benefits girls in one of the world’s poorest countries: Uganda. The project addresses the prevalent inequalities created by subordination, early marriage, frequent pregnancy, abandonment, divorce, domestic violence, marginalization and exclusion through financial and social interventions. The effect is a higher standard of living for families, villages, and the entire country.
Activities
Life skill training, reading, socializing at the center, playing indoor games, income generation training courses, extra-curricular activities, livelihood training, micro finance group formation, micro lending, impact research.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $13,680
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $76,320
Total Funding Goal: $90,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
An educated girl marries 4 years later, has 2.2 fewer children and reinvests 90% of her income in her family as opposed to a man’s 35%. Educating girls reduces overall HIV and malnutrition and also leads to higher high school attendance.
Project Message
“We can dramatically improve the lives of adolescent girls and the communities they live in by giving the girls a basic education and a means to earn a livelihood.”
- Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on July 22, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 20, 2008.
Latest Update from the Field
Update of BRAC's Program for Adolescent Girls in Uganda
By Michelle Chaplin - Program Manager, BRAC USA, July 22, 2008 04:36 PM
Thank you all for your support of BRAC’s program to provide safe spaces and loans to teenage girls in Uganda. Your investment in the girl effect will make a difference in the lives of adolescent girls in Uganda. Here’s an update of our progress so far:
We’ve surveyed and held discussions with teenage girls and their mothers to select the best meeting times, activities and training programs for the girls. BRAC staff members will continue to hold meetings with mothers to stay informed about the girls’ progress in school and at home.
We’ve developed training materials and trained 20 adolescent club mentors, who will each oversee a club of 25 girls. All of the mentors are female.
We’ve opened 20 adolescent clubs where girls can safely gather and discuss issues that are important to them with each other and with their mentors
Financial and livelihood training programs will begin in October, after which the girls will be able to take out small loans to start their own businesses.
BRAC USA CEO and President Susan Davis recently travelled to BRAC’s programs in Uganda and met with some of the girls in one of BRAC’s adolescent girls clubs. In the attached photo, the girls show Susan and Uganda Country Manager Arif Islam a traditional dance. Unfortunately, they couldn’t convince them to join in!
A team of students at the Stern School of Business at NYU are doing a study on donors views of BRAC’s programs. As some of the first supporters of BRAC USA and BRAC's initiative to support the lives and livelihoods of girls in Uganda, we value your opinion of how BRAC is doing and appreciate your help in answering questions in the following survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BNGP9LTVRT_2fglSTgKi5lTQ_3d_3d.
If you provide your name and contact information, we’ll add you to the list of invitees for an upcoming conference call with BRAC founder Dr. F.H. Abed that will take place in December.
Best wishes,
Michelle
Michelle Chaplin
Program Manager
BRAC USA
11 East 44th St., Suite 1600
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212-808-5615
Fax: 212-808-0203
Email: michelle@bracusa.org
Website: www.brac.net/usa
BRAC Blog: blog4brac.blogspot.com
You Tube: www.youtube.com/user/bracusa1
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