Updates from the Field - BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Girls in Tanzania
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Recent Updates from the Field
BRAC's Safe Spaces for adolescent girls in Tanzania are up and running!
By Michelle Chaplin - Program Manager, BRAC USA, July 30, 2009 11:30 AM
Thank you all for your continued support of BRAC's Safe Spaces and Loans for Adolescent Girls in Tanzania. I just returned from visiting some of the girls' clubs in the Dodoma region of central Tanzania and wanted to give you a few updates:
*All 20 clubs have been set up. Each club has an average of 29 members, so a total of 580 girls are benefiting from the project.
*We've provided training to 20 adolescent leaders/mentors.
*We've begun holding parents' and mothers' forums on a monthly basis to ensure support from the community and encourage parents' involvement with their daughter's lives.
*We're developing the life skills training course, which will provide the girls with important information on topics such as gender equality, reproductive health, leadership skills, etc.
*We've conducted a survey of the girls and in the local community to determine the best livelihood training courses to offer.
*Livelihood and financial training courses will be offered later this year, after which the girls will be able to take out small loans to start their own businesses.
I've also posted some stories from my trip to Tanzania on BRAC's blog: http://blog4brac.blogspot.com. Please take a look!
With your continued support, these girls will soon be able to generate income for themselves and their families so they can afford things like school supplies, food and clothes.
*All 20 clubs have been set up. Each club has an average of 29 members, so a total of 580 girls are benefiting from the project.
*We've provided training to 20 adolescent leaders/mentors.
*We've begun holding parents' and mothers' forums on a monthly basis to ensure support from the community and encourage parents' involvement with their daughter's lives.
*We're developing the life skills training course, which will provide the girls with important information on topics such as gender equality, reproductive health, leadership skills, etc.
*We've conducted a survey of the girls and in the local community to determine the best livelihood training courses to offer.
*Livelihood and financial training courses will be offered later this year, after which the girls will be able to take out small loans to start their own businesses.
I've also posted some stories from my trip to Tanzania on BRAC's blog: http://blog4brac.blogspot.com. Please take a look!
With your continued support, these girls will soon be able to generate income for themselves and their families so they can afford things like school supplies, food and clothes.
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Update of BRAC’s Program for Adolescent Girls in Tanzania
By Michelle Chaplin - Project Manager, February 17, 2009 12:09 PM
Thank you to all of our donors for your gracious support of BRAC’s program to provide safe spaces and loans to teenage girls in Tanzania. With your help we have made measurable progress towards reaching our goal. 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, recruited and trained 10 adolescent club mentors. All of the mentors are female.
• We’ve opened 4 adolescent clubs where 100 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 later this year, after which the girls will be able to take out small loans to start their own businesses.
With your support we will continue to build adolescent clubs, sign on and train mentors, and recruit members to participate in the clubs.
Best wishes,
Michelle
• 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, recruited and trained 10 adolescent club mentors. All of the mentors are female.
• We’ve opened 4 adolescent clubs where 100 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 later this year, after which the girls will be able to take out small loans to start their own businesses.
With your support we will continue to build adolescent clubs, sign on and train mentors, and recruit members to participate in the clubs.
Best wishes,
Michelle
